Title: migrating data between dev & production
Last modified: August 4, 2017

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# migrating data between dev & production

 *  Resolved [natharward](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natharward/)
 * (@natharward)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-data-between-dev-production/)
 * In April I copied my Live WP site to a Dev environment so I could make a whole
   ton of changes with a new membership portal. I’m getting ready to go live with
   that (taking the Dev version of the site, and making that live, over-writing 
   everything in the Live instance).
 * While I’ve been doing this, we’ve made about 1 pretty link a week because business
   keeps going. I’m looking around the plugin folder for file(s) where all the links
   and data are stored so I can copy that from the Live site and put it on the Dev
   before the migration. Want to save the links, create dates and click data (seems
   better to me than manually re-creating all the prettylinks on the dev site). 
   What am I looking for?
 * No joke, I already copied every folder & file from wp-content/plugins/pretty-
   link as they are on the Live site and uploaded them to the Dev, overwriting what
   was on dev. But my list of links in Dev is the same.

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 *  Plugin Author [cartpauj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cartpauj/)
 * (@cartpauj)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-data-between-dev-production/#post-9382068)
 * The data, links, and settings are stored in the WordPress database. When WordPress
   does plugin updates, it deletes the plugin folder and copies the new files over
   afterwards. So storing data in the plugin folder would be a no-no.
 * What you’d have to do is move the prli_* database tables over.
 *  Thread Starter [natharward](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natharward/)
 * (@natharward)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-data-between-dev-production/#post-9392787)
 * Hey cartpauj, thanks for the info. That action is over my head, but I’ve asked
   the sysadmins who work on the site with me to have a look. Will confirm that 
   we figure it out.

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 * Last reply from: [natharward](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natharward/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-data-between-dev-production/#post-9392787)
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