Hi,
I have a problem as follows: when I dump the database, search&replace url (let’s say – from dev.asd.com to asd.com) and I import it to another database, everything works well, beside link fields. On on all pages, they are just empty. As this field is not storing a relation to ID, but only a string values for url/title/target, why the modification of that string is not working?
Please let me know what I kind of debugging information should I add.
Best regards
you cannot do a simple search and replace of urls in the WP database. The reason is that WP might store values as serialized arrays and altering these by using a search and replace will clause all content in these serialized arrays to be lost. https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
Thanks! The thing is, I am using this tool and link field values are gone anyway.
are you loosing any other serialized data? What version of PHP is being used on each site? are they the same?
It appears there was some problem with data itself – proper search and replace with serialized arrays in mind solved the problem. Thanks
Hello – i’ve been using various tools to grab remote sql to import locally. My links are never imported and this has been going on for 4 or 5 months now.
I’ve tried mysql exports, WP migrate and a few other methods but the links or their labels are never imported.
I have no issues with other data at all
