all posts are missing from wp admin

  • Resolved Giellemme

    (@giellemme)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    Hi there!

    I have a very strange issue that I never experienced before. I created a new wordpress site for a client on my development server at the address clientname.mytestserver.it (fake domain) and now I moved it on the client production server at the addrress clientdomain.eu (once again, fake domain) . I used wordpress migrate db plugin to replace the domain names or I tried a simple mysql export/import via php admin but everytime I have the same result: the new db is created okay, all data is present in wordpress tables, but any page or post gives a 404 error. Inside wp admin I can see that I have, for instance, 13 pages but they are not listed. I can create a new page, it will be added in the database but will not be listed in wp admin. The same goes for posts, media files, custom posts, cf7 forms…..everything.

    This only happens when I replace the old domain with the new one. If I leave the db untouched on the new server (with the old domain) everything works fine…I just cannot click on any link, as I will be redirected on the development server.

    Any Idea?

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  • Your database may still contain old URLs that cause the redirection and other problems. Do a search and replace so that no old URLs remain.

    Thread Starter Giellemme

    (@giellemme)

    Yep Krishna! Did it via search & replace. All old url strings were replaced….and boom! All is gone from wp-admin. Can it be some dns issue?

    DNS settings can take up to 72 hours to populate (often much less). When did you set name servers?

    Thread Starter Giellemme

    (@giellemme)

    last tuesday… they were set by the host provider, actually….

    Right from the first post by you, everything seems weird and should not be that way. I think you should test the site again on a local installation or test site, and when everything is OK, change the URLs and then transfer to the live site.

    BTW, it’s time for the DNS to populate.

    Thread Starter Giellemme

    (@giellemme)

    Hi there!

    I fixed it. I didn’t think this could be the case, but it was a plugin issue. I had a commercial plugin which was licensed to my development domain, so I disabled and reissued the license to the production domain.

    Everything is working fine, now.

    Thanks

    Glad that you could resolve the issue. ??

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