Hello,
I know there's a few WordPress experts here. Can I pick your brains?
Say I have a WP site at https://dev.example.com/ and I now want to
copy it and put it live at https://example.com/. Having read:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-the-site-url/
do I just…
- Copy the filesystem structure from one document root to another
Yup.
- Dump the database and re-insert it into a new database
Yup, then edit wp-config.php with your new database settings.
- Install wp-cli and run
$ wp search-replace 'dev.example.com' 'example.com' --skip-columns=guid
and then it's all switched?
Don’t do that last part unnecessarily - you should just be able to follow the section titled “Changing the URL directly in the database” (editing the ‘home’ and ‘siteurl’ values in the wp_options table) and give the site a go.
If you have any plugins installed that for some reason store the site address in their tables and/or config, then you may need to go down that search and replace route, but most sane plugins should use those values in the wp_options table.
-n