Moving website to another hosting

Posted in: Newspaper
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Wlk
#264348
Nov 28, 2018 at 1:24 pm

I had to move my website to another hosting and domain. WordPress handles this quite fine, but I have problem with newspaper theme. It stores a lot of paths in absolute format in database so for example all logos and thumbnails are still pointing to old url. When I try to update these directly in database, whole theme does some partial reset (all block thumbs are disabled, site logo is gone, fonts are gone etc). Doublechecked that I changed only urls and didnt make any typos. Seems to me like some glitch or protection. Is there any correct way to change absolute paths defined in my theme config? May be some sort of data export in readable format so I can alter paths. Default export is encoded…

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Catalin
#264469
Nov 29, 2018 at 9:56 am

Hello,

Please notice that we cannot provide support for moving your website to another hosting, sorry! If you want to make this changes, you need to use the WP Duplicator plugin which seems to be used by more customers and which works as expected.

Thanks.

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Wlk
#264471
Nov 29, 2018 at 10:01 am

No probs, changed all assets manually. But maybe tip for change in code, why do you store absolute paths to assets like images or custom fonts instead of relative, as does WordPress? Then moving to another domain would be trivial…

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Catalin
#264549
Nov 29, 2018 at 2:24 pm

Hi,

All of the theme’s settings can be saved and imported from here -> https://www.screencast.com/t/Q3fS7qy5yPCl

Thanks for the message!

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Wlk
#264560
Nov 29, 2018 at 3:42 pm

Catalin, thank you, but let me quote myself
“May be some sort of data export in readable format so I can alter paths. Default export is encoded…”

So no, this wont help at all with altering paths in saved settings.

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Catalin
#264581
Nov 29, 2018 at 4:28 pm

Hi,

Unfortunately, another way out of this does not exist, sorry!

Thanks.

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