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@itsonlybarney:

I gave the codex a read, but I don’t know what it means by “update your database”. I don’t know what a WP database is, or which files comprise it ??

Can someone please advise me how to copy over all my WP files AND database (which directories, basically) to the new site, and which files require the search and replace, as described below?

thanks!

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When your domain name or URLs change

– i.e. from https://example.com/blog to https://example.com, or https://example.com to https://newexample.com – there are additional concerns. The files and database can be moved, however references to the old domain name or location will remain in the database, and that can cause issues with links or theme display.

If you do a search and replace on your entire database to change the URLs, you can cause issues with data serialization, due to the fact that some themes and widgets store values with the length of your URL marked. When this changes, things break. To avoid that serialization issue, you have two options:

1.Only perform a search and replace on the wp_posts table.
2.Use the Search and Replace for WordPress Databases Script to safely change all instances.

Hi,

If someone can recommended an import tool that works, I’m all for it. I used “https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wordpress-importer/” and got tons of error messages to the effect that my slider type was incompatible, yada ya… the resulting website was a complete mess.

I am not moving the site to a new server, I just want to move it from mysite.com to mysite.com.au, which are both hosted on hostgator.

Thanks