Hey all.. Hoping for some help on this one, i have a localhost setup and would like to design a few wp sites on my local machine before going live with them (my ISP / my bandwidth is currently capped to 7kb/s ) so to save time i would like to design some themes and add articles to them on my localhost... The last time i tried moving a site from my localhost to my resellers account / live site, i got many errors... i have moved / sold / bought / transferred many sites and am familiar with transferring databases and site files and so on... but is there anyway to go directly from a localhost to a live site ? I wish to pack up the files & database from my localhost and upload them to my server / domain.. but as the lets say localhost/testsite when i upload this to my site all the database is looking for is "localhost/testsite". Would anyone around here have any advice as to how to solve this conflict ? Is there a way possible to do this ?? Thanks in advance for any helpful replies, Cheers
after upload in wp_options table u can replace those things ( localhost/site ) and in .htaccess change those words too
I do this all the time (develop locally, upload when finished) Once my theme and content is all finished locally, I create a new (empty) WP install on the server - just as if I'm starting a new blog, tweak the permalinks etc, and upload my theme directory and any plugins. I've then got a blog that looks like my local version, but with no content. Then I export my WP db from the local install (via the WP admin panel), and import it into the live version on the server. Takes about 5 mins. Basically... copy your theme over to a fresh empty blog, then import your posts.
Thanks for the help guys.. i knew it was possible just wasn't sure how, getting a little sick of manually adding all the articles across, Cheers again