This is driving me freaking insane. I need help. I’m setting up a website for myself and I decided to go with Wordpress for the ‘creation’ aspect. I went with another company for the hosting services and picked one that’s specifically able to integrate with Wordpress. Well, not knowing any better, I spent a LOT of time putting together a website on my ‘temp’ website address while I waited for my domain to process. Once that was done I figured I could just transfer everything over from my old wordpress to my new, since they were on the same server. How wrong I was.
Basically, I’ve gotten all the actual files and folders transferred over. And I’ve made the necessary changes to the php scripts. I even imported the sql database from my old address since apparently that’s where Wordpress keeps all the data on pages and posts.
Well it didn’t freaking work. The database is there. Wordpress works. But…all the information ON the database isn’t reflected on Wordpress’ admin panel. Any changes I make on the panel (like changing the site name) is reflected on the new sql database but Wordpress refuses to acknowledge the posts/pages/media.
Things I’ve done so far:
Updated the wp_config file to reflect the new address
Exported the original SQL file and went through and changed all instances of my old domain to my new one
Uploaded the new SQL file via my host’s phpmyadmin
Reset the htaccess file by saving my permalinks setting via WP admin
Disabled all my plugins (which it recognized from the sql!)
At this point I’m pretty much discouraged and certain I’m going to have to start from scratch but I’m hoping someone might have some magical solution 