DLo978

I’d have to go back and look at my settings to see if a minify tool is included with Super Cache. That may very well be the case, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t Better WordPress Minify which is the specific plugin I referred to above, and the one I found more useful between the two. So, that advice is very much helpful to someone researching individual tools to help with the optimization process.

I appreciate your outreach and when I review my optimization settings I will most certainly accept your offer for W3TC help.

Thank you.

My need to do regular migrations greatly diminished so I opted for a more manual method. The value for my need wasn’t great enough to justify the work. Should that change I would just automate the steps below. I did however find a pretty expedient manual way that I will share that may help you.

Step 1 was to modify some general database data manually:
a. wp_site: domain, path
b. wp_sitemeta: siteurl
c. wp_blogs: domain, path for each record
i. You can write a simple query to do all the records in one shot
d. wp_options: ‘site_url’ and ‘home’ for each blog
i. Again, you can write a simple query to do all the records in one shot

Step 2 was to run two queries for each blog. It was simple as pasting both queries at the same time into a MyPHPAdmin query window, run them, increment the blog number by hand, repeat. Did about twenty blogs in 5 minutes. The queries were:
a. UPDATE wp_2_posts SET guid = REPLACE (guid,”https://www.olddomain.edu/”,”https://www.newdomain.edu/”);
b. UPDATE wp_2_posts SET post_content = REPLACE (post_content,”https://www.olddomain.edu/”,”https://www.newdomain.edu/”);

Hey lhutt –

I’ve been having difficulty too, and found quick success with a different plugin. https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/simple-301-redirects/ To be honest I only spent about a 1/2 hr troubleshooting but without any documentation that I could find I thought I’d explore an alternative solution. With a success 5 seconds later, I was happy.

Cheers,

D.Lo

I should clarify my other point. I think the table I need to write a script for to clean up widget options automatically is wp_x_postmeta.

I found that same article and had good success with that. Like you said, widget contents can be problematic and I ended up having to correct some things by hand. But I have a feeling with a little more work I can create a DB script that will also take care of those options.

Thanks for the follow up and additional suggestions.

Out of curiosity, what settings weren’t brought over? I’m working on a multisite migration myself. If you end up doing a manual process I’d be interested in hearing what steps you took.

Thanks,

D.Lo