Avoiding duplicated work

[daniel]

Hi Guys,

One stupid question here. How do you setup your local development environment?

I just finished to build a big WP website with a lot of content and pictures. Now I need to upload them to the real address. So, I exported the content using Tools->Export and imported there. But now I need to fix all the links and references, because a lot of stuffs are pointing to my local address.

Any tip how to avoid this headache?

Best,
Daniel

[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.

[daniel]

Hi, Thanks.

I will try to do this.

Cheers

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