I created a staging site from a fresh wordpress install and used PRO to build a whole new site for our company.
When the time came to take it live I followed these instructions: https://askwpgirl.com/move-wordpress-subdirectory-root/
The staging site is http but the live site is https.
It was successful at first. After I copied the files over into the root the entire site looked like it loaded fine. The problem is those instructions have you do a few more steps including using the Velvet Blues Update URLs plugin. When I used that plugin per the instructions, all of our pages created with PRO stopped loading with the exception of the home page. When I go to edit one of the pages I see shortcodes instead of the big “Edit With PRO” button. When I click to edit with pro there are no sections or any content.
When it broke I restored the old site to the root and re-migrated the new site back to staging but the problem persists on the staging site. This leads me to believe that something changed in the staging site’s database.
Steps I have taken so far:
- regenerate the htaccess page
- checked the console (no errors)
- deactivated all plugins
- used Better Search Replace to ensure staging site was fully pushed back to http from https when I reverted.
Curiously, one page remained full intact and working through all of it. It was built with PRO and is still completely editable.
Is the any way I can recover the 60+ pages we built with PRO?