Migrating a WordPress website from Laragon to Local

Hey @marqus! Following back up here in the public thread. We did some extensive testing with your site and were unable to get things 100% working. That said, we were able to get some progress.

Here are the steps we found most fruitful:

  1. Create a blank site in Local.
  2. Turned the site off.
  3. Open the site folder
  4. Delete the wp-content folder
  5. Copy the wp-content folder from the .zip and move it into the new site at the same spot
  6. Copied the DB dump and moved it into the site root (App>Public)
  7. Ran wp db import {my-db-name.sql}, watched it succeed
  8. Started the site again

WP Admin loads now, at least, and we can see all the plugins and themes. However, it does throw a warning that the theme is broken.

Going from here you may want to also do a Search and Replace with something like replacing codingfix.local with / or even just a blank space to remove it from paths.

Unfortunately, we also noticed the uploads didn’t come through. The posts and post meta tables are empty, which is odd because we can see them in the .sql file, and they definitely have instructions to write values to that table.

Some of the data definitely comes through though, because we can see weird stuff like the _mig_queue_jobs table exists and has content but as far as we can see, we never get any error on the import.

So there may still need to be some further development and cleanup to get this thing completely patched up, but hopefully the steps above at least help to get you into the Admin and able to proceed.