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Multiple developers / editors working on a site in progress
Background
I'm nearing the final stages of constructing my first fairly large WordPress site, and I'm now encountering some friction. For the most part, the site was developed on my local machine and ...
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How can 2 blogs share the same users
I have a running normal WP blog (blog 1). I want to create a Q&A section for my users, so I setup another blog with WP-Answer theme (blog 2).
The problem is I don't want my users at blog 1 have ...
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Migrating a WordPress site from One Hosting Provider to Another?
I have my WordPress site being hosted on a Windows provider and I am moving to another Windows provider. Any gotchas or instructions on how i can smoothly transition from one to another without losing ...
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How to replace the domain name in a Wordpress database?
I have a Wordpress database which was installed in a development environment... thus, all references to the site itself have a fixed IP address (say 192.168.16.2). Now, I have to migrate that database ...
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How can I migrate a super old version (2.0) of my blog to 3.1?
I can't use any of the import plugins because of the older version -- so it's kind of a pain, plus the URL permalinks arent very optimal. Any ideas on how to do this? I'm afraid I'd have to do this ...
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Programmatically get images by URL and save in uploads folder
I am involved in a large migration from another CMS to WordPress. We have a copy of the database and have worked out how to extract the content and programmatically create WordPress posts from it ...
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How do you seamlessly switch hosting?
I recently switched a WP site from shared hosting to a VPS and would like to document the process here.
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How can I migrate from another platform to WordPress (using the same domain) and launch when ready?
Currently, I have a blog that runs atop Tumblr, which is relatively young (3 months old or so, maybe 25 posts altogehter) that I want to migrate to a self-hosted Wordpress installation. I've installed ...
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Migrating Markdown (from Drupal)
I'm in the process of migrating my blog from Drupal to Wordpress. I have made liberal use of Markdown in the original posts (and Geshi syntax highlighting).
In see that the WP-Markdown plugin ...
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Is there an easy way to migrate a site from SiteFinity to WordPress?
Has anyone ever migrated a site from SiteFinity to WordPress? I've got a large (1,200+ page) site that I'm transitioning over to WordPress and I'm not looking forward to the content migration.
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Why does WordPress use serialize rather than json_encode for the options table?
I have a basic understanding of serialize (I come across it often when I'm migrating WordPress installs) and I just discovered json_encode.
Given that serialize causes so much trouble with replacing ...
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Redirecting traffic from old “.WordPress.com” blog to privately hosted WordPress blog?
I've got a blog hosted on .wordpress.com, ie the free version.
I'm thinking of re-activating my hosting package so I can have my own WP installation, and therefore have more customisation options ...
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Using chunk theme from wordpress.com on my own host
I am new to wordpress so please excuse this question if it is obvious, but I was not able to find a good answer here or via the more general internet.
I want to use the Chunk theme from wordpress.com ...
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Plugins to clone wordpress site and move to another url
Are there any possible plugins that could clone an entire Wordpress site and install it in another location?
I build sites on one url, then to show the client and move it to another url to show it.
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References to other site everywhere in Wordpress site
I am relatively new to Wordpress, have been handed a site developed by someone else on one server, and have to deploy it to another. This site has bbpress installed, plus a load of other stuff. ...
