Step Two: Inputs are GONE!?

Hey @doylegirl,

There are now 4 steps in the install process. The New URL input is on “Step 3”.

Let me know if that helps~

I don’t see it anywhere? And I only see 3 steps. See two screenshots above…

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by doylegirl.

Hi @doylegirl,

Ah.. yes your correct from the optional inputs in the WordPress admin. That was intentionally removed from the pre-fills as too many users were entering the wrong URL or confused as to which one to enter.

If you run the installer on Step 3 it will automatically pre-fill the URL with the current URL of the installer. If that needs to be changed (which is rare) then you can easily edit the URL at install time.

I know for more technical users like your-self its a no-brainer, however we deal with all kinds of users and sometimes we try to help protect them from possible issues such as this…

The problem is that at install time many users where installing against a bad URL causing the installs to go bad and sending a mass amount of questions our way as to why there site install failed, and some of them not so polite…

There is no clean way to internally validate if the New URL is going to be correct based on so many different configurations (sym-links, sub-domains, alias paths, etc.) when the installer is placed at its destination. The database inputs on the other hand have to be valid in order to connect so if they mess those up then they can easily correct those at install time.

It wasn’t an option we really wanted to remove but there wasn’t a clean way to prevent bad installs and the fact that it is automatically pre-filled at install time leaves no work for 99% of most setups.

Hope that helps~

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Cory Lamle.

Cory, thanks for the explanation. I understand you have a lot of users and want to make it easiest for most. But…this is the ONLY way I know how to move websites from a demo.link.com to livesite.com. I’ve used it 100’s of times…your plugin is “Slicker than snot” I say.

I’ll try your way “If that needs to be changed (which is rare) then you can easily edit the URL at install time.” and see how it goes…I’ll miss the old fields… : {

Sounds good! Thanks for the update…