The more I look into it, it looks like the “create sql” button that should be on the Replace Domain/URL tab, was accidentally replaced with the “do search & replace” button. Running the Replace Domain/URL function does not offer the option to create a sql file?
Hey Fuchs913,
thanks for your feedback. You´r right we have difference between the description and the button text. i´ve open a issue for this at our github repository .
About the problem, you get no feedback after running a search & replace action. I cant confirm this. When i perform domain replacement, i get information about the tables and cells and i get a short message “Your SQL file was created!” with a button for the download. Look here.
Hi Rene,
Thank you for your reply. That’s right, the “Your SQL file was created” does not show up for me. See picture in link below. I am running WP 4.4.2 with the Avada theme 3.9.3
See Here
A quick follow up. I turned off all plugins, including “fusion core” which is a required plugin for the Avada theme, and I still have the same problem. This issue must be related to the Avada theme, if the plugin is 100% compatible with WordPress 4.4.2.
Could it be that you have a big Database and selected all tables for a run? Is it that try to split your search&replace in smaller dumps.
Hi Rene,
I do in fact have a large database. It is searching approx 119 tables, and finding over 6,000 items needing replacing. My goal is to update the URL to http”s”. How would I perform multiple actions, and bunch them into one SQL file?
In this case you perform multiple actions when you select a small group of tables. Go to the Search & Replace tab and try this
Rene,
I looked into using the “Search & Replace” tab to do this, but it will not work properly, It is reading things like an email address, “[email protected]”, and changing it to “sales@https://www.beatonindustrial.com”. It has to be done through the “URL Replace tab”.
See a picture here
I think search for “beatonindustrial.com” and try to replace this with “https://www.beatonindustrial.com” If you want replace “http://” to “https://” try following search for “http://beatonindustrial.com” or “”http://www.beatonindustrial.com” and replace this with “”https://www.beatonindustrial.com”
Note: at the “Search & Replace-Tab” you can’t replace Domains on the Database but you get a dump with the replacement.
Rene,
That won’t work either. When I check off “export sql file” on the Search & Replace tab, it does the same exact thing as the “Replace Domain/URL” tab, which is show how many tables were reviewed and how many cells “need to be updated”, but does not show a “download SQL database” for exporting.
I don’t understand the complexities behind selecting only a couple tables at at time, and exporting multiple SQL files, and then how to combine all of them into one SQL file that I can then import?
Is it possible for you to update the plugin so it can handle larger databases? I would think I can’t be the only one who has had this problem. Perhaps many people have had this problem, but just give up and never report back. ?
Pic Here of Most Recent Attempt
I ended up having to download, “Better Search and Replace” plugin. Worked right away first time.
