Description
MigrateFix helps site owners, developers, and agencies clean up common issues when moving a WordPress website from development or staging to production.
Current features include:
- Dry-run URL scanning before any database change.
- URL replacement in common WordPress content and metadata tables.
- Serialized PHP data handling during replacements.
- Search engine visibility check.
- HTTPS check.
- Home URL and Site URL comparison.
- Permalink configuration check.
- Capability and nonce protection for database actions.
- No post GUID replacement.
Always create a current database backup before using any search-and-replace tool.
Installation
- Upload and activate MigrateFix.
- Go to Tools > MigrateFix.
- Enter the old development or staging URL and the production URL.
- Run the scan and review the results.
- Create a current database backup.
- Select Replace URLs when you are ready.
FAQ
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Does MigrateFix change anything during a scan?
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No. Scanning is read-only.
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Does MigrateFix support serialized data?
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The replacement engine unserializes supported WordPress serialized values, performs recursive replacement, and serializes them again.
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Does MigrateFix replace post GUIDs?
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No. The plugin intentionally does not modify the posts.guid column.
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Should I back up my database first?
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Yes. Always create a current database backup before modifying URLs.
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Contributors & Developers
“MigrateFix: Migration Cleanup & Launch Checker” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
0.2.2
- Added the dedicated MigrateFix plugin homepage.
- Refined plugin metadata for WordPress.org review.
0.2.0
- Renamed the plugin to MigrateFix: Migration Cleanup & Launch Checker.
- Updated the plugin slug and text domain to migratefix.
- Removed unsupported Tested up to metadata from the PHP plugin header.
- Refined WordPress.org metadata.
0.1.0
- Initial development build.