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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [[Widget Content Blocks] [Plugin: WYSIWYG Widgets] Link Button Not Working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wysiwyg-widgets-link-button-not-working/)
 *  [jamesmorrish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesmorrish/)
 * (@jamesmorrish)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wysiwyg-widgets-link-button-not-working/page/2/#post-2170874)
 * Hi Danny!
 * Thanks for your help!
 * I actually found a similar article just after posting that message. I tried using
   the script to sort out all the serialized arrays but it didn’t deal with them
   properly and my widgets didn’t reappear. It replaced the domain name in the serialised
   arrays but it still didn’t update the string lengths.
 * I ended up going through manually and updating all the string lengths!! I might
   debug the script at some point to see what went wrong, but I’m far too busy at
   the moment!
 * I’m fairly new to WordPress and it seems crazy to me firstly that that this data
   is stored in the form of serialized arrays (why not just give each widget a row
   in the database?), and secondly that absolute paths are stored in the database
   at all!
 * Surely moving a site from domain a to domain b is something that happens all 
   the time? Why do they make it so difficult?!!!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Rich Widget] [Plugin: Rich Widget] All entries disappear after moving to another Domain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rich-widget-all-entries-disappear-after-moving-to-another-domain/)
 *  [jamesmorrish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesmorrish/)
 * (@jamesmorrish)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rich-widget-all-entries-disappear-after-moving-to-another-domain/#post-1717859)
 * Hi,
 * Did you ever find a solution to this?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [[Widget Content Blocks] [Plugin: WYSIWYG Widgets] Link Button Not Working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wysiwyg-widgets-link-button-not-working/)
 *  [jamesmorrish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesmorrish/)
 * (@jamesmorrish)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wysiwyg-widgets-link-button-not-working/page/2/#post-2170869)
 * I have the same problem – I’ve developed a site on one domain, then copied all
   the files to the live domain. I extracted the database and did a find and replace
   on the db file to replace all instances of the old domain name with the new one.
   I imported the db into live, then all my WYSIWYG widgets have disappeared.
 * I’ve compared the databases and there’s differences in the serialized array –
   not sure what’s causing this yet but still investigating.
 * If anyone has any info it would really help!

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