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WordPress Local WordPress Development Local WordPress Development Migrating WordPress from Local to Live Server

Posted by Christine Fitzgerald
Christine Fitzgerald
1,585 Points

Content (pages, plugins, custom posts) not migrating.

Everything working fine after the migration except my content isn't transferred over. On FTP I uploaded the content to my public_html folder, then the SQL import/export occurs on the localwp database I was told to create.

What is happening?

Nate Conley
Nate Conley
16,191 Points
Nate Conley
Nate Conley
16,191 Points

Did you do Search and Replace?

1 Answer

Christine Fitzgerald
Christine Fitzgerald
1,585 Points
Christine Fitzgerald
Christine Fitzgerald
1,585 Points

Search and Replace currently doesnt fix any of the actual changes, just does the dry run