The Forgettful Website Developer

moving wordpress site

After copying files and db content:

1. Edit wp-config.php with new db content
2. edit .htaccess (if parent folder name of wp has changed)
3. using phpMyAdmin (as instructioned in the above link)…
4. update all absolute URLs to new domain eg.
   UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://www.old-domain.com’, ‘http://www.new-domain.com’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ’siteurl’;
5. UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://www.old-domain.com','http://www.new-domain.com');
6. UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com');

Some good webpages out there:

My slight different process/follow up includes:

• before uploading SQL content:
• find/replace in sql export:

• ’ with \‘

  “ with “

  ” with “

  – with -

  (else question marks show up in my article via)

• for some reason <sitename>/administrator doesn’t work anymore but <sitename>/administrator/index.php does

Very good article

Or you can just do this. Seems too easy:

Feedburner - paste blog url into feedburner.com and follow directions

how to

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/wordpress-plugins-for-images-photographs-and-graphics/

mostly to set width to 150 when uploading (keep proportional)