• I have a website that was hosted on a free server. I’m moving to a better paid server. So far I got everything working except the form I made on the free site doesn’t show up on the form page on the new site. I get this in place of where the form would be:

    (form ‘form-1’ not found)

    Is there any way to copy it without having to recreate it all over?

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-form-manager/

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  • You can do this via the database directly. Currently, there is no way to do this via WordPress itself. You will need to know the blog ID# of the current blog you are moving it from (I use Multisite, and this is essential) and the blog ID# of the new site. I imagine if you are running a single site set up, it is less of an issues. Then you need to move from the old database to the new one all the associated form tables ( wp_4_fm_data_1, wp_4_fm_data_2, etc., wp_4_fm_forms, wp_4_fm_items, wp_4_fm_settings, wp_4_fm_templates). The wp_4_fm_settings & wp_4_fm_templates tables are problably optional if you have not made any settings changes to the forms as whole (individual form settings will need to be moved and are captured in the other tables). “wp_4_fm” would need to be replaced with the number of the blog you are moving to. So if on your current blog, the blog ID # is four, and on the new one it is six, for all the table names, you would need to make sure “wp_4_fm” became “wp_6_fm”. Very important. You will need to make sure your table data also reflacts this change. I found it easiest to export out a SQL statement text file. Edit the text file doing a search and replace (ie “wp_4_fm” to “wp_6_fm”).

    I’ve done this several times as I run a test instance of WordPress multisite and a production version and have had to move forms via this method before. has worked fine for me. You move the data, or just the tables. Personally, I find it best to move everything, then clear any data (either before or after the move) if need be. You do have to be comfortable poking around the database directly, and make sure to do back ups just in case.

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