Moving WordPress Sites

By Brett Popoleo SQL, wordpress 0 Comments

Moving WordPress websites to a new url. Run these sql queries in phpMyAdmin or with whatever database application you use.

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, '//dev.example.com', '//www.example.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, '//dev.example.com', '//www.example.com');
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, '//dev.example.com', '//www.example.com');
UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value, '//dev.example.com', '//www.example.com');

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, '//dev.example.com', '//www.example.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, '//dev.example.com', '//www.example.com');

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, '//dev.example.com', '//www.example.com');

UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value, '//dev.example.com', '//www.example.com');