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WP CLI Command – Profiles subcommand

wp migratedb profiles Outputs a list of saved migration profiles. The command outputs a table of saved profiles with profile id’s that can be used with the the wp migratedb…

Peter Tasker

Nov 1, 2016

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WP-CLI Command – Push/Pull Subcommands

wp migratedb <push|pull> <url> <secret-key> [–find=<strings>] [–replace=<strings>] [–regex-find=<strings>] [–regex-replace=<strings>] [–case-sensitive-find=<strings>] [–case-sensitive-replace=<strings>] [–include-tables=<tables>] [–exclude-database] [–exclude-post-types=<post-types>] [–skip-replace-guids] [–exclude-spam] [–preserve-active-plugins] [–include-transients] [–backup=<prefix|selected|table_one,table_two,table_etc>] [–media=<all|since-date>] [–media-date=<yyyy-mm-dd>] [–media-subsites=<blog-id|subsite-url>] [–subsite=<blog-id|subsite-url>] [–subsite-source=<blog-id|subsite-url>] [–subsite-destination=<blog-id|subsite-url>] [–theme-files=<all|theme-one,theme-two,theme-etc>] [–plugin-files=<all|plugin-one,plugin-two,plugin-etc>] [–exclude-theme-plugin-files=<string>] Allows you…

Brad

Jan 31, 2015

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WP-CLI Command – Setting subcommand

The setting CLI subcommand provides an interface to get and update several WP Migrate DB Pro settings from the CLI. wp migratedb setting <action> <setting_name> <value> Options <action> Can either…

Peter Tasker

Oct 13, 2016

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A response was expected from the remote…

A response was expected from the remote, instead we got nothing. (#146 – scope: transfer_chunk) Several things could be causing this, so let’s try to figure it out (in order):…

Ian

May 10, 2015

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WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL

Setting the WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL constant to true in your wp-config.php file will stop all outgoing network requests from your site. This is typically set on sites that are sitting behind a…

Iain

Apr 24, 2015

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Mixed Case Table Names

Mixed case tables names (e.g. wp_Custom_Table) are potentially problematic in certain environments where the MySQL setting lower_case_table_name is set to 1. See MySQL’s lower_case_table_name documentation for a full explanation of…

Chris

Oct 1, 2014

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Changing The Current Site’s URLs

As of WP Migrate DB Pro 1.7, in-place find and replace functionality is included as part of the plugin. This can be used to update a site’s URL rather than…

Brad

Aug 11, 2014

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Extracting a Subsite From Multisite to Create a New Single Site Install

NOTE: The following is a very manual process, we have since released Multisite Tools 1.1 with both Export Subsite as Single Site Install and Push Subsite to Single Site Install…

Chris

Aug 13, 2014

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Push or Pull?

Attempting a migration from a remote server to a local server will never be possible. Instead, initiate a pull from your local environment (sucking the data down from your remote…

Brad

Aug 11, 2014

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How It Works Exactly

Overview Before WP Migrate DB Pro was around, the standard way to migrate your WordPress database from one site to another was to open up phpMyAdmin and make a MySQL…

Jeff

Jul 9, 2015