Comments on: Migrating WordPress Blog Servers

By: John C

John C — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:15:53 +0000

@Pete …thanks for that – look forward to the blog post. Don’t know why wordpress can’t sort this?

John

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:41:38 +0000

“So if you’ve tweaked your theme to explicitly reference category numbers you’ll either need to rename your categories or tweak your theme again – whichever is the easiest”

You can actually get around this with abit of manipulation of the functions.php file in the theme. In short you can get it to display cats and page by name rather than ID. I’ll be writing a post on this soon.

Sorry to hijack your post James, very helpful it is indeed and something I’ve not tried but get a feeling I may need in the Future.

Pete

By: John Cronin

John Cronin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:14:44 +0000

Good tip about viper plugin.

One thing to note with the export/import …if you have categories they don’t seem to keep the same number when you import them into new setup. So if you’ve tweaked your theme to explicitly reference category numbers you’ll either need to rename your categories or tweak your theme again – whichever is the easiest. I’ve fell foul of this a couple of times now!