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WordPress Modern WordPress Workflow The Staging Server Migrating from Local to Staging

Jeff Kivett
Jeff Kivett
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Posted by Jeff Kivett
Jeff Kivett
1,490 Points

How do you make sure the database links are updated when pushing to staging?

This has probably been addressed somewhere in the video already, but I have gone back through it several times and cannot find it. How do you get the links to update (like site-url, etc.) when you do a wordmove push?

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Sue Johnson
Sue Johnson
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Sue Johnson
Sue Johnson
16,648 Points

There are a number of ways to do this including scripts, plugins or using wp-cli. The method I use is to log into phpMyAdmin and do the following mySQL queries on the database. You should replace wp with whatever prefix you have given your tables:

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'http://example.com' WHERE option_name IN ('siteurl', 'home');

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content=(REPLACE (post_content, 'http://oldurl.example.com', 'http://example.com'));

Obviously you replace the URLs with your own.