Export not working if the plugins folder is renamed

  • Resolved Jose

    (@giuse)


    3 years, 10 months ago

    Hello

    first of all, I love this plugin. Really congratulations to all the team behind All In One WP Migration.

    I had a little issue. The exporting process doesn’t work if the plugins folder has a different name. I know, usually, nobody renames the plugins folder, but WordPress allows you to do it, so in my opinion, the plugin should be able to export the installation also if the plugins folder has a different name.

    I suppose in the code you used the name “plugins” instead of getting the name of the plugins folder. Probably replacing the string ‘plugins’ with something that gets the name of the plugins folder will solve the issue.

    Thank you in advance.

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  • Plugin Author Yani

    (@yaniiliev)

    The plugin should work with custom WP-CONTENT folder name and custom name for the plugin.
    You might be missing something when defining the custom folder name.

    Thread Starter Jose

    (@giuse)

    Hi @yaniiliev

    thank you very much for your answer. No, I don’t think so, but probably one of the other plugins triggers a fatal error during the process. I will check it.

    Is it possible for All In One WP Migration to disable all the plugins during the importing and exporting process? I think you would avoid some failures due to errors caused by other plugins. I have seen that the code of the plugins runs during the importing and exporting process, and sometimes I had problems with that. It’s not dramatic, because it’s enough to rename the plugin that is causing problems, but it would be great if you disable all the plugins during the process.
    I don’t mean globally disable them, only filtering the WP core option active_plugins for the requests called during the process.

    Plugin Author Yani

    (@yaniiliev)

    During the import, the plugin imports the content with plugins disabled and as a last step, it activates the plugins and theme.
    So if a plugin causes an issue, you will not be missing any content, you just have to fix the problem with the plugin.
    Starting with WordPress version 5, you will receive an email that allows you to login in wp-admin dashboard and resolve such issue.

    The plugin does not allow disabling of plugins on import as there is no clear way to track dependencies between plugins, mu-plugins, and themes. For example, a plugin might be required by a theme and disabling the plugin could result in an error in the theme.
    We leave this to the site administrator – if you are transferring between sites with the same PHP version, you should not have any issues with active plugins.
    When you are transferring a site between different PHP versions, then you might have a plugin incompatibility (All-in-One WP Migration will warn you of this on import).
    The solution is to login in wp-admin using the method I mentioned above and update/downgrade the plugin that causes the issue or disable it and contact the plugin’s author for assistance.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Yani. Reason: fix gramma
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