[Meg]

hello,
I’d appreciate any help on this issue. We developed a small website using Catch Everest and a child theme. It was developed at a test domain, and when we went to update the site address to the new address (at Settings > General > WordPress URL and Site Address)

The current site is at: http://advancemy.biz
It was at http://162.144.66.253/~wheatridgebiz
We have updated the database replacing the new url with the old development url. However all of our custom Theme Options are gone. Can’t find any of the content that was in Appearance > Theme Options – everything has been reset.

Can I get my custom content back? Is there a protocol for updating to a new site url?
Thank you.

[Sakin]

@Meg: You shouldn’t just edit the site WordPress Address and Site Address from your “Settings => General”. As this just change your site URL but not your database. So, you need to edit your database as well. This is not the theme issue. You can activate any default theme and check in. All the content and options older then this changes will be still linked to old site URL. To change the URL you need to use the search and replace code such as https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

[Meg]

Thank you so much. I believe that helped clear up the problems. Some things are still not showing, but I’ll let you know if it seems to be a theme issue. Appreciate the guidance.

[Sakin]

@Meg: Yes, you need to do it right way. I also had similar problem when I was changing site from demo server to live server. This seems to be very confusing. I don’t know why WordPress has this option and not change the database.

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