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Create an empty site for migration
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Yakovos Frountas |
To migrate a site in GP you should create a new WP site in the panel and I strongly believe this is wrong. Once you are creating a new site you get new files and a new db prefixed with wp_ name.
I think it could be better for the users to give us an option to create an empty site with db name, db username and that's all. Then the migration process would be just the transfer of files and renaming the db. Now with the current process, I have to create a new site.
Delete the old files inside the htdocs folder, rename the wp_prefix in your wp-config file because all my sites having a custom prefix, and also delete the initially created db before the import process because if I don't do that I have two options tables one wp_options and one custom_options.
I think you should give us this option in order to be quicker a site transfer. I have to migrate some large sites and I would be grateful if you consider adding this option to our toolset in the near future. For your reference, I don't use any plugins for migration just console but I did a try with the migrate guru and got the same results.