Here is a small tutorial on how to use Duplicator: hidden link
This should help you perfectly migrate your website while maintaining the exact same setup and also taking care of the search and replace process so that the old links will be overwritten with the new URLs of the new domain you are migrating to (in case you are also changing the domain and not only the server).
I hope that you will find this helpful 🙂 I use only Duplicator each time I want to migrate WP websites. They also have a premium version but if you don't have a huge website with a huge database, the free version should work fine.
Another option is to use a "search and replace" plugin that you can use for searching the database for all the old wpengine staging environment and replace all of them with the new live/production domain (hidden link)
I have already migrated the site so I don't know if a migratino plugin will help me at this point. I tried using the plugin Better Search & Replace but it's unable to find that URL string and returns no results? My guess is that WMPL tables do not work with that particular plugin? Do you have another one you recommend? I'm happy to do search and replace to fixt the issue, but the plugin will need to be able to read WPML tables.
Sorry, still not having any luck, plugins are not finding it and I tried querying the following tables below as well and it's not finding it anywhere. The link works fine on the English (native) page so I can't seem to figure out where the Spanish page is getting that URL from. Please assist or escalate. Eran Helzer already has access to my site if that's easier. Thanks!
Queries I have tried:
SELECT *
FROM wp_postmeta
WHERE meta_value LIKE '%hidden link';
SELECT term_id, meta_key, meta_value
FROM wp_termmeta
WHERE meta_value LIKE '%hidden link';
SELECT user_id, meta_key, meta_value
FROM wp_usermeta
WHERE meta_value LIKE '%hidden link';
SELECT field_type, field_data
FROM wp_icl_translate
WHERE field_data LIKE '%hidden link';
SELECT id, name, value
FROM wp_icl_strings
WHERE value LIKE '%hidden link';
SELECT ID, post_title, post_content
FROM wp_posts
WHERE post_content LIKE '%hidden link';
I would like to request temporary access (wp-admin and FTP) to your site to take a better look at the issue. You will find the needed fields for this below the comment area when you log in to leave your next reply. The information you will enter is private which means only you and I can see and have access to it.
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I will be checking various settings in the backend to see if the issue can be resolved. Although I won't be making changes that affect the live site, it is still good practice to backup the site before providing us access. In the event that we do need to debug the site further, I will duplicate the site and work in a separate, local development environment to avoid affecting the live site.
- Please make a backup of the site files and database before providing us access.
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