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The Case of the Disappearing Widgets

CMDR Mitchcraft

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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.

 

Export, phpMyAdmin, SQL, WP Migrate DB
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