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Migrating Site to GoDaddy Basic Managed WordPress

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Recently was not able to convince a client of the benefits of having me professionally manage, host and maintain their website for them. They wanted to save money and use GoDaddy’s Basic Managed WordPress service. So I had to migrate their completed demo over to it but ran into countless errors with GoDaddy’s hosting platform.

The GoDaddy migration tool was useless as was GoDaddy support. GoDaddy support insisted that I upgrade the server in order to complete the migration. But I only had delegated access to the clients account with no ability to purchase said upgrade because the client did not grant me those permissions.

Long story short, I was able to manually migrate their site over, even though we were on the Basic Managed WordPress server using the steps enumerated in this article.

This article is only for my personal use, to help jog my memory if another client want to migrate their site to a more affordable solution. Please do not use this article for migrating any of your or client sites. If you do, you take full responsibility for anything that goes wrong, or right for that matter.

 

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Carbon Copy Page, Post Duplication WordPress Plugin

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Carbon Copy WordPress Free Post, Page Duplication Plugin

 

[ See the officially released version of this plugin on WordPress.org ]

 

Are you ready to increase your productivity?

This free WordPress plugin will allow you to quickly and conveniently copy your pages, posts and even your custom post types. You can quickly copy, bulk copy and copy straight to new drafts.

Best Alternative to Yoast Duplicate Post

This WordPress plugin was based on the original Duplicate Post plugin by Enrico Battocchi before it was acquired by Yoast, now called Yoast Duplicate Post. Carbon Copy is now the best alternative to the Ad riddled Yoast Duplicate Post plugin. No annoying ads and greatly simplified for maximum productivity. But don’t take my word for it, I am biased.

 

Download from WordPress Download from Github

 

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Delete WP User when Deleting Gravity Forms Entry

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The following code, when inserted into a custom plugin or your child theme’s functions.php file, will automatically delete the associated WordPress “Users” account when deleting a User from the “Trash” tab. Learn more from the online Gravity Forms “Delete Entry” Documentation page.

 

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Insert Script into WordPress Header

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Recently had a client with a WordPress website in need of injecting a JavaScript tracking code into the Header. This would allow the injected JavaScript tracking code to appear within the header <head> of every page on their website. Newer WordPress themes usually provide an option to inject code into the either the header, body or footer areas but the client had a custom WordPress theme with no such feature or ability.

In this article I will show you how to quickly and easily add a script, JavaScript or any other custom code into the Header area of your WordPress website with or without a WordPress plugin.

 

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How to Completely Disable Comments in WordPress

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In this article I showcase a few simple code snippets to completely disable the WordPress commenting system.

 

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Remove Protected, Private from Title in WordPress

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In this article I provide a simple function snippet to remove the titles Protected: and Private: from private or password protected pages in WordPress.

 

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Upload to the Media Library Using Gravity Forms

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The following code, when inserted into a custom plugin or your child theme’s functions.php file will forward all file uploads (images and documents) to your Media Library within your WordPress website. Special thanks to Kim G. who originally published the code snippet.

 

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How to Use Brave Search in Microsoft Edge

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In my opinion and research the Brave Search engine is the industries best privacy focused search engine. In fact, Brave Search is my default search engine knowing full well that if I have to, I can still use pop into Google or Bing.

This article will show you how to quickly and easily add and use the Brave Search engine within your Microsoft Edge browser.

 

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How to Flush DNS Cache Windows

Flushing your DNS on Windows

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Most operating systems will cache (save) IP addresses and other associated Domain Name System (DNS) records in order to fulfill future requests more quickly.

For example, when I visit a website for the first time, my Brave web browser has to ask DNS servers what the IP address is for the requested website. Once it has found this information, my Brave web browser will store it in its local cache and take me to the requested website.

The next time I access that website, my Brave web browser will first check for locally saved DNS records which saves a step by not having to fetch that server IP address again.

When you update the DNS records for your domain name, after transferring to a new hosting provider for example, your local cache needs to be cleared and updated. Otherwise your web browser may continue redirecting you to the old web server address until the DNS propagates throughout the web (usually after 24 hours).

Also, sometimes dangerous IP addresses or corrupted results can be cached along with other issues not mentioned here. Whatever the reason, Windows will allow you to force the process of clearing this cache or “flushing” your DNS. In this article I will show you how to quickly and easily flush your DNS cache on Windows.

 

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Insert Script into WordPress Footer

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Recently had a client with a WordPress website in need of injecting a JavaScript tracking code into the Footer. This would allow the injected JavaScript tracking code to appear towards the end of every page on their website. Newer WordPress themes usually provide an option to inject code into the either the header, body or footer areas but the client had a custom WordPress theme with no such feature or ability.

In this article I will show you how to quickly and easily add a script, JavaScript or any other custom code into the Footer area of your WordPress website with or without a WordPress plugin.

 

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