Sites are empty after migration

Beaver Builder
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Hello,

that is really really bad. I’ve transferred a site from one domain to another using the great BackupBuddy Plugin. After that I’ve cleaned the BB Plugin Cache. But some pages are empty. After looking into the source code within the editor, the whole layout is damaged. All my boxes are in one box now.

What causes this error?

Please help me!
Bastian

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Hey Bastian,

Thanks for getting in touch and sorry to hear about this problem. Normally, we’d recommend using the Serialized Search and Replace script after migrating sites. An alternative to that would be to use the Better Search Replace plugin since it’s based off the same script.

Would you mind sharing the site URL as well as temp admin access details so we can check? Please also include the dev site URL.

Ben

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Hi Ben,

why it’s so difficult to transfer an existing site?
I use the BeaverBuilder Plugin because it’s easy to use and it makes a great job.
But using extra scripts like you provided doesn’t seem to be easy. Is that really necessary?

Thanks
Bastian

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Hey Bastian,

Transferring a site has always been difficult, at least for me, since most of the sites I transferred back then uses serialized data(not only BB uses serialized data but a lot of other plugins and themes as well). If you use a normal search and replace script to change the URLs, the serialization gets broken and you start getting problems like you have.

Using the script isn’t hard at all. All of the fields are auto-populated using the details on your wp-config file and all you need to do is to search for your old URL and replace it with your new URL. It’s even made easier with the Better Search Replace plugin as you’ll only fill up 2 boxes, the string to search for and the string to replace it with.

Anyway, I haven’t gotten to check the site yet so I won’t know if this is what’s causing it but I usually rule that out first as it’s most likely the cause for migration issues.

Ben

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Hey Bastian,

Sorry but with the pages deleted I won’t be able to see the DB entry for it. That’s where I check if the serialization was broken or not after the migration. And no, you don’t ever have to rebuild the pages from scratch or copy the existing pages from the old site to the new site once a site is migrated successfully. Below is a screenshot of how the Better Search Replace plugin works, just to show you how easy it is.
http://imgur.com/VJPPNOn

Just place the old URL under Search for , place the new URL under Replace with, select all the tables, check the 2 boxes and uncheck the last box and that’s it! Just a reminder though, this does changes to the database and it’s always a good habit to take a backup of it before doing so.

Ben

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Hi Ben,

I was thinking that “BackupBuddy” does exactly this if using the “importbuddy.php”…
Am I’m wrong?

Bastian

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Hey Bastian,

I haven’t really had any experience using BackupBuddy but it does say on their website that it does handle serialized data. It could be though that when you first migrated the site, it encountered a problem and didn’t run correctly. We usually encounter these types of errors and we just rerun the script or redo the migration. I was gonna have you redo the migration if the serialized data was corrupted but then again, since the pages were already deleted, I really can’t say that was the problem/error.

Ben

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Hi,

so should I install the “Search and Replace” plugin and run it on my live site? Just to get sure?

Thanks in advance
Bastian

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Hey Bastian,

Sure, that shouldn’t be a problem. Just be sure to take a backup of the DB before doing so.

Ben