Duplicator issues with BBPress and Contact Form 7

Hey Asig,

I have contact form 7 installed on one blog and never experienced that issue, have not tested with BBPress however… I’m currently working on the next version and will try and test both again to see if I can repro the issues…

Cheers~

Appreciate your feedback. If interested, I can provide you with a login and password to https://www.macgregorbc.com in case you want to test it from that site.

I could look at it but it may be awhile before I can dig in… If your needing immediate assistance I can recommend some developers for hire…

I don’t need immediate assistance, but I am curious and interested to find out in the long run why the Duplicator stopped working properly.

Since my initial email I noticed that any further topics in bbPress are not duplicated and any plugins that I installed since the problem started are being duplicated, but with the plugiins de-activated and the setup parameters lost.

Let me know if and when that you would be able to look at it (or maybe a future release will solve it). I really like your plugin and hope to be able to continue to use it.

Sounds good! Once I can get through the next version I should have a little extra time to look at it in detail…

Cheers~

Trying to troubleshoot it further, I noted the following now. The filed directories and files within them all duplicate fine. The database, however, appears to be stuck on a November 2013 date. It duplicates the database as of a specific date, but not to current status.
I tried exporting the online database in myPHPAdmin and then importing it into the local copy of the Duplicator, but that did not work. Any suggestions how I can update the database in the local copy manually?

Kind of interesting, I am learing a lot as I go.

Andy

It may not be relevant, but Contact Form 7 broke after a recent WP update. It seemed to work, but never sent the emails. A fix was not forthcoming for a while, so I switched to Captcha and Contact Form. If CF7 gets fixed, I’ll probably go back to it.

Lane

If I’m following you correctly you shouldn’t manually change any dumped export script from phpMyAdmin and then manually try and update the content, you will run into PHP serialization issues with some data elements…

Hi,
I found a workaround and my Instant WordPress works again.

For reference, I will describe below what I know and how I solved it. It may help you with the next version.

The issue was that the way a duplicated Instant WordPress local website did see it, the database seem to be stuck on a date in November 2013, out of synch. Anything added after that did not update in Instant WordPress and

To fix it:

– I learned about and installed Xampp as I was searching for an alternate to Instant WordPress.
– After several tries I was able to create a successful localhost copy of my website in Xampp.
– From the Xampp local website, I created a Duplicator package
– I used this Duplicator package to deploy it in Instant WordPress

This created a perfect, up to date Duplicator copy. Since then I can create and deploy Duplicator packages again in Instant WordPress without any problems. It appears that Xampp fixed something in the database that caused the Duplicator or Instant WordPress to cause an error.

For reference, after I imported the SQL database into Xampp, I followed instructions that I found on the internet and issued the follwoing three SQL commands before opening the Xampp localhost copy of the website.

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘https://www.macgregorbc.com’, ‘https://localhost/wordpress’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ‘siteurl’;

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, ‘https://www.macgregorbc.com’, ‘https://localhost/wordpress’);

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, ‘https://www.macgregorbc.com’, ‘https://localhost/wordpress’);

If you are interested in testing and recreating the error, I can email or send you by Dropbox a Duplicator package from December 2013 that will deploy into a package where the database is out of sync.

In any case, I really appreciate the Instant WordPress environment that you created and am glad that it is working ok again.

Hey Andy,

Thanks for the update. I’ll review these changes…

Cheers~