While developing our company’s blog I ran into some problems and roadblocks. Some have been due to WordPress itself and others due to implementing creative functionality like that sexy sidebar (post coming soon on that). I figured out how to correct and fix some of these issues by re-writing code, uploading to server, crossing my fingers, refreshing and then repeating those steps. Sometimes my prayers were answered, and when not I turned to Google and the great WordPress community. So now that I’m not having the development blues I’m going to do my part and share my issues and how I solved them over a series of posts.
First off I’m going to discuss the problems I ran into when backing up a database and moving it to our development environment. For those of you who have never backed up your wordpress database or attempted to switch it to a new wordpress blog on another server, you can get your basics from the documentation on the wordpress site here. So when I was duplicating our old blog database and install that resided at < www.creativemagma.com/blog > to have a new development stage at < www.creativemagma.com/cmblog > I ran into a problem with the database that I exported from the old blog. STOP, Let me make an important note, I did not implement a new or fresh installation of wordpress at < www.creativemagma.com/cmblog > I simply copied all files from < www.creativemagma.com/blog > and placed them in the < /cmblog > folder and changed the wp-config.php file to point to the new database. Once the old database was imported into the new database caused the new blog at < www.creativemagma.com/cmblog > to point all posts url’s to the old blog at < www.creativemagma.com/blog > I took a look at the newly imported database and I found my problems. When I browsed the wp_posts table I found two columns where I saw the old/wrong url.
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The only way to enhance business over the web these days is through Search Engine Optimization. This is the only fuel that websites need to enhance business and take it to a different level for the very fact that one does not have to strive too hard to create business opportunities. The process is so inclusive and so complete that the website is set up for its entire life span and becomes such an attractive entity that one finds it extremely tough to debug it from the web space and also finds it hard to let go of the whole experience.
