PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

[Tyson Sawyer]

We weighed the effort an uncertainty of "fixing" what we had with the
effort and certainty of starting over.  Then we tried a few tools for
migrating a Wordpress site's domain/host name and the plug-in that is
supposed to dynamically rewrite the domain name for multi-hosted
sites.  When none of them worked, we started over.  My wife stayed up
way too late last night, but she got most of it put back together (we
hadn't invested much in content yet).

Some of remaining remnants of the test domain were in static pages of
our own.  Those could have been fixed.  However, a couple of css files
kept getting generated with links to the old domain. I suspect that
some of you with more experience would have known just where to look,
but for us, a reboot seemed like the most sure way of making things
right.

I appreciate the help from this list.  It didn't end up pointing to a
technical solution that we used, but did help us decide how to deal
with it.

Thanks!
Ty


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Tyson Sawyer <tyson at j3.org> wrote:
> Thanks very much for the feed back.  It confirms what we are dealing
> with.  I'm not sure when the last back-up was, we will check.  We will
> do an other backup so as to not dig deeper.  Then we will evaluate
> trying to fix vs. just rebuilding from scratch.  From scratch might be
> viable since most of the work into the site thus far was
> exploring/learning/trying and should be repeatable with less effort
> than the first pass.
>
> Thanks!
> Ty
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Brian Chabot <brian at brianchabot.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Ted Roche <tedroche at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 04/14/2014 09:50 AM, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
>>>> Wordpress seems to embed the sites URL in EVERYTHING. WTF!  What is
>>>> wrong with leaving the host name out to access the files from the
>>>> "current host"?
>>
>> Like many things in WordPress, there is a plugin for that:
>>
>> http://wordpress.org/plugins/any-hostname/
>>
>>>> How screwed are we?
>>
>> Depends on whether the plugin uses the domain/FQDN length, etc.
>>
>>
>>> Well, if you have a clean backup from before the period that you started
>>> searching-and-replacing, there's a number of plugins that can do the job
>>> properly for you.
>>>
>>> If you don't have a backup, well.
>>>
>>> Make one now.
>>
>>
>> Seconded, emphatically.
>>
>>
>>> There are two NH groups that specialize in WordPress, one in Manchester
>>> (that meets tonight) and one on the seacoast. You might want to join
>>> their Meetups and get some expert help there.
>>
>> I've never been to these, but I do have extensive experience with WP.
>> Feel free to ping me offlist if you need.
>>
>>
>>
>> Brian Chabot
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> Tyson D Sawyer
>
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> of many bad measures.   - Daniel Webster



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Tyson D Sawyer

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent
of many bad measures.   - Daniel Webster