Staging Versus Live WordPress Migration QA Before Launch
A staging clone looked ready, but I still compared the real page structure, links, images, and domains before launch.
Migration
WordPress Multisite Shows ‘Error Establishing a Database Connection’ After Migration, But the Database Is Fine
Credentials correct, MySQL running, tables intact. The real cause was a domain mismatch in wp_site and wp_blogs that WordPress checks before it even tries to load your site.
The rsync Exclude Trap That Breaks WordPress Plugin Migrations
Using --exclude='cache/' in your rsync command? That pattern matches at every directory level and silently deletes plugin source code. Here's what happened during a real migration, why it…
How to Extract Specific WordPress Post Meta from a Raw SQL Dump
Need one meta key from a 600MB mysqldump but can't create a temp database? grep won't work on extended INSERT format. Here's a Python script that parses the…
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