Hi, I moved my site to another host and for some reason many images went missing in action after the move. No all of them but most. I was just wondering has anyone else had this problem and could it be Newspaper Theme based problem? I’ve been trying to find out with our current host what could be the cause of this.
This is the site and as you can see (even though it is in Finnish) one of the articles is missing an Article pic:
http://metalliluola.fi/artikkelit/
The article is “KISSIN ”CRAZY NIGHTS” JULKAISTIIN 30 VUOTTA SITTEN” in that particular page. It is just a tip of the iceberg.
Thanx for any tip.
Theme doesn’t control storage of the images; that’s done by WordPress media manager.
Often using DUPLICATOR is best way to ‘move’ a website. Also good to FTP the image folder off your old system and ‘compare’ to image folder from new system. If you have 800 images in one and 700 images in another, then migration didn’t work.
Most common issue with this is file naming problems, like
myimage-123.jpg
myimage-123(2).jpg
MyImage-123.jpg
will likely cause a lot of problems in any kind of ‘move.’
Anyway — just feedback from sombebody who’s been moving stuff from server to server every 3 years since 1996 (!).
Upshot: don’t trust the WP export function.
Upshot: if moving from one Plesk box to another, the migration tool will copy everything over properly. If moving from one host to another, other best option is DUPLICATOR plugin.
Hi Chris and thanx! I kinda thought it has nothing to do with Newspaper. Funny thing is that the new host tried to solve this but with no luck. Now I’m asking a backup from the previous host to compare the files.
Damn, I wish I’ve used the Duplicator plugin…
Anyway, thanx!
Yeah… I generally have always used the ‘migration tool’ from the new server to basically package up old domain, move to new system and expand out the files and folders — normally works. Except this last time, funnily enough (a year ago August). So, tried the DUPLICATOR plugin and went ‘wow’ … then used it again on a site where we changed the domain name from some hideous long thing to short sweet name, and it even did all the internal domain name changes — that was the “whoa!” moment. SO, now I throw out the “try DUPLICATOR” line to everybody, with WP sites.
FTP still works, though. 🙂
