I’m getting more and more requests from bloggers wanting to move from their blogging platforms to a private wordpress environment they will be able to manage as they wish, especially in terms of advertising.

Anyway cut a long story short, as I was testing a database move from Canalblog (which is a french blogging platform) to a local wordpress environment, thanks to an outdated plugin (still my best and only option), I ended up with an ok and usable database with a few things to be sorted by hand.

So what do you do when you don’t know shit about sql and want to mass correct data within your wordpress database tables?

Sequel Pro

First of all, and this is for mac users like me, you need to install Sequel Pro, an open source MySQL database administration tool which can do everything and more. It’s powerful, quick, user friendly (e.g. auto-completion), and it looks a tiny tad better than phpMyAdmin [lol].

Once in Sequel Pro, connect to your database using the MAMP config page, and rapidly browse your tables and various content.

Right so back to my problem. All my posts had been imported with an extra string (“Commentaires sur”) in front of the post title and the post url.

In Sequel Pro, click on the Query button, and query your database:

SELECT post_title, post_name FROM wp_posts where post_title like 'Commentaires sur%'

Test your modified data by adding the function of your choice within your query. Here, I just trim the character string by removing the first 18 characters:

SELECT SUBSTR(post_title, 18), SUBSTR(post_name, 18) FROM wp_posts where post_title like 'Commentaires sur%'

Once you’re happy with it, update your database (here I ran it in two blocks, one for post_title, then for post_name), and make sure you have no errors:

update wp_posts
SET post_title = SUBSTR(post_title, 18)
where post_name like 'commentaires-sur%'

…and voilà, database is updated and your posts are working as expected.

Obviously, depending on the issue, you may need to use a different string function. You’ll find them all here.

The post Update a WordPress database table using Sequel Pro appeared first on shoogle designs' blog.

We can all agree keeping our development WordPress database in sync with the production is pretty important and neat when it comes to WordPress theme development.

And you might already know WP Migrate DB, the cool little plugin that exports your database as a MySQL data dump, does a find and replace on URLs and file paths, then allows you to save it to your computer.

Well, you will be delighted to hear that the guys at Delicious Brains are releasing Wp Migrate DB Pro, taking this wp database sync business to another level, and offering (in exchange of a one-time fee) features such as:

• Pull production/staging db down and replace local db
• Push local db up and replace production/staging db
• Select tables to export
• Unlimited find & replaces (currently you can only do 2)
• Compatibility with multi-site
• Priority email support

Developer edition at $99 for use on unlimited sites looks right up my street if I’m honest with you.

The post Taking WordPress database migration to another level appeared first on shoogle designs' blog.