[Plugin: WYSIWYG Widgets] Link Button Not Working

I have the same problem – I’ve developed a site on one domain, then copied all the files to the live domain. I extracted the database and did a find and replace on the db file to replace all instances of the old domain name with the new one. I imported the db into live, then all my WYSIWYG widgets have disappeared.

I’ve compared the databases and there’s differences in the serialized array – not sure what’s causing this yet but still investigating.

If anyone has any info it would really help!

@jamesmorrish : https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/9076/why-is-my-database-import-losing-text-widget-data

Hi Danny!

Thanks for your help!

I actually found a similar article just after posting that message. I tried using the script to sort out all the serialized arrays but it didn’t deal with them properly and my widgets didn’t reappear. It replaced the domain name in the serialised arrays but it still didn’t update the string lengths.

I ended up going through manually and updating all the string lengths!! I might debug the script at some point to see what went wrong, but I’m far too busy at the moment!

I’m fairly new to WordPress and it seems crazy to me firstly that that this data is stored in the form of serialized arrays (why not just give each widget a row in the database?), and secondly that absolute paths are stored in the database at all!

Surely moving a site from domain a to domain b is something that happens all the time? Why do they make it so difficult?!!!

@danny – thanks for that link. Since I’m using MAMP Pro for dev sites, I just set up a new host and am going to use the production url in everything. That’s a much better system.