A must have plugin!
]]>After contacting Valentin from support, where I explained the problem and set up a test user account at his request so that he could test the problem, it was solved in less than a day!
I think the support is exemplary!!! It was the right decision to use Weglot. The translations are almost perfect. A little post-processing may be necessary, but this is always a question of style and taste when it comes to translations.
From my point of view: thumbs up!
]]>Beware: A very large website fails with timeout. The database and important files are correctly transferred and amended, but you have to transfer the missing files (if you know how to use rsync, that’s a good choice).
If the migrator fails, it tells you, and you have the choice of trying again from scratch or fixing the problem by copying the missing files. This plugin loses a star for not having an option to resume from where it left off.
SiteGround provides a temporary URL until you change your name servers. Be aware that in that temporary area, editing pages and posts in the back end has some UI glitches, but fortunately they magically fix themselves when you take the website live.
Some folders and files aren’t migrated if the migrator thinks that they’re not part of WordPress. This is where the migrator loses another big star, because there is no message informing you of this! So, if you have folders and files that you’ve created in your website that WordPress doesn’t explicitly know about, you need to manually copy them across to your new site.
The migrator should inform you of files that it wouldn’t take across, and give you the option of including them. At the very least, it should tell you what it has omitted, so that you can manually take them across.
The migrator changes .htaccess, robots.txt, and wp-config.php. You need to run through these to check the changes; some changes are useful or even improvements, but one or two changes might be unnecessary and need to be reverted.
If you use your URL with www in front, you have change it in your WordPress settings after converting, because bizarrely the migrator removes it. I would remove ? star for this if I could — it’s an unnecessary change, and caused some initial hassle logging into the WordPress back end after committing to live.
I will say this, though: The Support team for SiteGround was great! They were patient and understanding when I had problems (in some cases, caused by me!). I add back a star for this
Thank you!
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