Very useful! But you need to be realistic.

There are a few gotchas in migration, which I believe the plugin could do a better job alerting you to them. It generally works very well if you know approximately what you’re doing. Migration is a technically very challenging task and to think that there would be a magical solution that works out of the box in widely varying circumstances is unrealistic.

I say this again: there are too many crummy or at least mildly unusual setups for anyone to come up with a one size fits all product.

This plugin makes a hard task possible, if you chip in a little. With the database search&replace function, you can go a long way. I managed to migrate my site from a local http installation to the production server running https. So I have to replace "http://" with "https://" and the local hostname with the production hostname – otherwise nothing is going to work.

Also, on my production server the plugin creates folders in wp-content/upload as root:root and then cannot put any images in them – but fails to alert me to the problem. The solution is to create the folder manually as (in my case) apache:apache, repeat the migration and then the plugin will put the images there reliably.

After the migration it is sometimes necessary (depending on your theme) to go into the customizer and save it once. This will fix fonts and background image issues.

If you have WPForo and find that the forum links are all wrong, go and set your site to “WPForo only”, save it, set it back and save again.

It’s not all easy-peasy, but this plugin does the heavy lifting very well.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by ulim.