I’ve migrated tons of WordPress sites in my tenure as a WordPress developer, but over the years one thing would always bother me: my widgets kept disappearing. I’d dump the SQL database and import it to the new server only to find that every single widget had vanished.
So, I looked for a solution.
WP-Migrate-DB (despite it’s fancy title) keeps every option and SQL line when you activate it, and saves it to a file just like a regular export. The differences are very clear:
- Unlike a traditional export, you can define ahead of time the destination URL and even the destination file structure (/home/snv/ – not my actual structure, by the way, but a good example).
- It saves all of the smaller options that are normally left out of an export.
You can download it through your blog or through the repository.
