Re: Avoiding duplicated work

[davesgonebananas]

I don’t use the built in export features to deploy a client site.

I export the database using Phpmyadmin or mysqldump. Then search and replace http://olddomain.com/subdir with http://newdomain.com/newsubdir in the sql file.

It’s far more reliable than import/export if you have a lot of posts/pages and it takes WordPress settings and plugin options too.