Difference between revisions of "WordPress and Copying or Cloning a Website Manually"

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**Modifiy wp_options Table, option_value Column for siteurl Row and home Row
**Modifiy wp_options Table, option_value Column for siteurl Row and home Row
**Better Find and Replace WordPress Plugin / Utility OR Migrate DB Tools, Migrate Tab, Find & Replace Button OR equivalent utility.  Don't use phpMyAdmin to do a 'search and replace' as data that's been [[wikipedia:Serialization|serialized]] will get messed up and break a website.
**Better Find and Replace WordPress Plugin / Utility OR Migrate DB Tools, Migrate Tab, Find & Replace Button OR equivalent utility.  Don't use phpMyAdmin to do a 'search and replace' as data that's been [[wikipedia:Serialization|serialized]] will get messed up and break a website.
*CleanUp;
**Delete unwanted Pages and Posts
**WP Optimize (general cleanup of database tables)
*WordPress
*WordPress
**Consider doing this (generally never hurts anything unless modifications have been made to a site at the file level, which is considered a bad practice): Dashboard, Updates, Re-install version XYZ Button
**Consider doing this (generally never hurts anything unless modifications have been made to a site at the file level, which is considered a bad practice): Dashboard, Updates, Re-install version XYZ Button
*Elementor (if installed)
*Elementor (if installed)
**Elementor, Tools, General Tab, Regenerate Files & Data Button AND Sync Library Button (and possibly clicking on the Save Changes Button, which doesn't seem to be necessary, but it's never explicitly stated by Elementor, so clicking on it won't do any harm)
**Elementor, Tools, General Tab, Regenerate Files & Data Button AND Sync Library Button (and possibly clicking on the Save Changes Button, which doesn't seem to be necessary, but it's never explicitly stated by Elementor, so clicking on it won't do any harm)
*CleanUp and Updates;
**Delete unwanted Pages and Posts
**WP Optimize (general cleanup of database tables)
**PlugIn Updates: Remember, when doing PlugIn updates if any 'blocking' is done for external websites in the wp-config.php file in the name of performance improvement, then 'un-block' them so WordPress can detect all PlugIn updates (IE, Pro, Premium, etc.)


==The Steps==
==The Steps==