Wordpress migration workflow

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#Wordpress migration workflow

(Work in progress)

Ever had those 'Oh my goodness!' moments with Wordpress? Here is a plugin that kills the issues with databases. Duplicator: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

Setting up VirtualBox Ubuntu server 14.0.4 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16954395/how-to-connect-to-a-mysql-server-running-on-a-virtual-machine

replace.sql

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://www.oldurl', 'http://www.newurl') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://www.oldurl','http://www.newurl');

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://www.oldurl', 'http://www.newurl');

UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value,'http://www.oldurl','http://www.newurl');