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Clone page via phpmyadmin

4 replies · Started by Svetoslav on January 31, 2019

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January 31, 2019 at 1:04 pm #798074

Hi guys,

I've setup a staging environment, where I built a few pages using sections. For a number of reasons, I can not overwrite my live site with the staging so I wanted to try and recreated the pages by using phpmyadmin and save some time. Here is what I did:

- went on live site and published a new page with "use sections" checked and 1 empty section. then closed the edit screen
- opened the postmeta "_generate_sections" from the page on the staging and copied the contents to the same meta field on the live site for the new page id.
- copied the "content" field from the "posts" table from the staging page to the live page
- tried to edit the page on live site again but no sections show up

I also ensured that any media links were updated in the array but still no go. What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance. It would be great if there is a way to do this

Thanks

January 31, 2019 at 4:24 pm #798185

Hi there,

For some reason, I don't think Sections can be copied like that, unfortunately. I think it has something to do with how they're serialized in the database.

I wonder if something like this would work?: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-exporter/

January 31, 2019 at 6:10 pm #798237

Thanks Tom, the plugin would definitely help. I'll keep digging and testing and will post back if I find something else.

January 31, 2019 at 6:25 pm #798244

I did a few tests and my approach worked for duplicating a page on the same site or moving that page to a completely new site.

This has narrowed down the issue of my mySQL environment between my live site and the staging.

Thanks again for you fast response.

January 31, 2019 at 7:24 pm #798261

No problem!

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