Title: Glitchy development site
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Glitchy development site

 *  [WhipCalArch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whipcalarch/)
 * (@whipcalarch)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/glitchy-development-site/)
 * I recently downloaded wordpress and created a website in development on ServerPress.
   After some initial issues, I eventually started to know my way around all three
   ServerPress, WordPress and the theme I downloaded from ThemeTrust. Then I could
   not get the site off my computer as developed (the database was missing from 
   the folder that supposedly had everything. So instead of having to pay $100 for
   ServerPress Pro I opted to let my web host set up a dev site for me and to rebuild
   it as it is on my computer, this way I can share it with others and in forums
   for better trouble shooting etc….
 * So I started yesterday, I kept running into glitchy periods where images I had
   uploaded would just black out, my slideshow on the home page disappears or is
   blacked out, I get cubic pixelation happening… I thought it was my computer (
   a mac) so I restarted, restarted resetting the P RAM, made updates, ran disk 
   utility and still it is glitchy. My host said it is not on their end. Could this
   be because I have ServerPress and WordPRess still on my local disk and it is 
   confused which data and links it is using??
 * Thoughts?

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/glitchy-development-site/#post-4190515)
 * Your hosting service probably did not transfer the site properly, they probably
   just copied the database without replacing the URLs and paths that point to the
   the original site.
 * WP and some plugins often store URLs and paths in ‘serialized’ format, where 
   the length of the string is stored with the string. If you replace a serialized
   URL with one of a different length, you will break the serialization, causing
   all sorts of problems.
 * Here is an article with the steps I use to copy a site: [http://wordpress.mcdspot.com/2012/08/22/migrating-a-wordpress-site-step-by-step/](http://wordpress.mcdspot.com/2012/08/22/migrating-a-wordpress-site-step-by-step/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/glitchy-development-site/#post-4190515)
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