PHP Serialization Fix for WordPress Migrations (& other applications like Expression Engine)

Posted on 2 March, 2009 by Dave and has 9 comments.

Seri­al­iz­a­tion of data loaded into an SQL table is a dread­ful thing and makes Word­Press migra­tions harder than they should be, but it hap­pens and so we must deal with it. I’ve knocked up a rough and ready bit of code which does its best to resolve the problem.

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Resolving Wordpress Migration Issue

Posted on 13 July, 2006 by Dave and has 3 comments.

I’m post­ing this for the bene­fit of any­one who exper­i­ences a sim­ilar prob­lem to mine when mov­ing Word­press from a dir­ect­ory into the web’s root dir­ect­ory.
What happened was that many links and pic­tures, some placed in there by plu­gins, oth­ers simply links that were typed in, had failed.
I real­ised that although I’d fol­lowed the migra­tion instruc­tions, a […]

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