Page Builder got deactivated on all pages except the main page for some reason. I then remembered that there is caching to be deleted so I found it under bb-plugin and emptied the cache folder.
That didn’t bring back the BB edit. It still shows the regular WP content.
I then activated BB on the page, but it seems to have returned back to the previous content. The original WP post content.
Now here’s the weird part. On the DEV site, that page showed with the BB edit, where each line at http://mth.pixelebration.com/the-12-premises-of-spiritual-healing/ had been changed to headings with an icons to the left. I was going to refer to it in this post to show the difference, but then, it also reverted… I have no clue why? I’m sober
Any idea what could have happened?
Should I always delete the bb-plugin/cache before or upon migrations?
Just a quick thought … after you migrated, did you do a search and replace of the database using a tool that handles serialized strings? BB stores it’s data as such in the db. Not sure if BackupBuddy does this.
BackupBuddy is pretty much theCadillac of migration tools for Wordpress, so yes it handles it.
As i was typing up the post originally about how it broke through migration, I noticed that the original, unmigrated, post also flipped back. So, i think my question now is more about understanding caching in BB, and maybe moving between Editor and BB mode?
As i was typing up the post originally about how it broke through migration, I noticed that the original, unmigrated, post also flipped back. So, i think my question now is more about understanding caching in BB, and maybe moving between Editor and BB mode?
BB stores data and cache a few different ways.
It stores layout data in the postmeta table as a serialized array of objects (that represent rows, columns and modules) under the keys _fl_builder_data and _fl_builder_draft.
The CSS and JS cache is stored in wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache and can be delete as it will rebuild itself if it doesn’t exist.
That’s the weird part, the Dev site was showing the newer edit, and a bit after the migration it stopped.
Did you make any changes to the dev site while doing the migration? Or did this seemingly happen on its own?
If so, should it not have gone back to the BB content? With icons and all?
Switching back and forth between the WordPress editor and BB shouldn’t destroy your content. It should all be there when you switch back, icons and all.
It sounds like somehow data was corrupted during the migration but I’m still trying to figure out how.
Thanks for the additional info. That is helpful. Let’s narrow it down to a single page to test to make figuring this out a bit easier. Can you link me to a single page with this issue?
Thanks, Gerard! What was that page supposed to look like? I launched the builder on the dev site and it does appear that the content in the WP editor and in BB are the same. Is that the content you were hoping to see?
