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  • Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Import issues
    phpepe

    (@phpepe)

    Here I posted a contribution to solve this kind of miration problems.
    http://phpepe.com/2010/06/wordpress-domain-migration.html
    Hope it help you !

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Import issues

    Hi all..
    Importing / Exporting content in wordpress really sucks.
    It’s a basic feature that I hope from any CMS… and the other opensource CMS like Drupal or Joomla do it right.
    Why the difficult ?
    You will find many and many issues around importing and exporting.
    The main reason is that wordpress stores a full absolute url for images, links, etc.
    Thats why you cannot simply make a sqldump, a zip of the /public_html folder.. like any other tools.
    ALSO If you only want to change your domain name, you can make a disaster in your wordpress installation. Then you must google about your situation, and you can found the right way to fix it after hours.
    So i decided to try with the core export / import content.. but :

    • Image size errors when importing content with images. You must disable php_safe_mode. (wordpress do not requires php safe mode off.. so means hours of debugging a stupid thing)
    • After solving safe_mode issue.. Finally the images has copied ok.. but… The image source already point to the original domain ! (the links luckly update ok )

      Really, the most used opensource CMS, it’ s so easy to use for the final users but has a very stupid little design/programming that makes stupid things so complicated !

    you can try with
    die($debug);
    instead of echo.

    This will throw
    “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.$debug

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