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August 10, 2017 at 4:39 pm #390571

Look CT
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I am going from a custom build GD theme to the GD plugin… I have a lot of listing on my sight and have been building my company around this website… I can;t afford to loose info or screw up the SEO (links)… I have created a sub domain and installed the GD plugin on another theme from your website (recommended)… I am using the same domain name and same servers, I just need to be sure my links and SEO will not be affected…

http://www.lookct.com <—- this is the old theme before the migration.

What is the best way to go about this migration and will everything translate correctly to the new theme and plugin? Please help.

August 10, 2017 at 8:25 pm #390600

Paolo
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Hi,

I flagged this topic for Stiofan so that he can guide you through the process and avoid problems.

Your urls will definitely change, so we’ll have to setup 301 redirects to tell google what’s going on, but it’s nothing that it can’t be done.

Don’t worry…

Stiofan will get back to you asap.

Thanks

August 11, 2017 at 10:17 am #390691

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

Post count: 22956

Hello,

We have a tutorial here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/geotheme-to-geodirectory-conversion-tutorial/

I would suggest you try it out on a dev site first, if you have any problems just let us know 🙂

Stiofan

August 22, 2017 at 1:49 pm #392307

Look CT
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Hello, I migrated the dev site… no Places or events are there… I tried to export all listings from my main site and import to my dev site but i get this
…
Failed to import “Personal Trainers Danbury CT”: Invalid post type place
Failed to import “House Cleaning Roxbury CT”: Invalid post type place
Failed to import “House Cleaning Newtown CT”: Invalid post type place
Failed to import “Cardio Kickboxing Danbury CT”: Invalid post type place
Failed to import “Lighting Design Fairfield County CT”: Invalid post type place
Failed to import “Lighting Showroom Greenwich CT”: Invalid post type place
Failed to import “SmartSeed Tech- Company Reviews”: Invalid post type place
Failed to import “SmartSeed Tech”: Invalid post type place
Failed to import “SmartSeed LLC”: Invalid post type place
Failed to import “Custom Drapes Mt Kisco NY”: Invalid post type place
…

August 22, 2017 at 4:26 pm #392338

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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Can you explain exactly what you are trying to do? (export what to what)

Also can you provide wp-admin, ftp and Database access to the dev site?

Thanks,

Stiofan

August 24, 2017 at 2:44 pm #392712

Look CT
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August 24, 2017 at 3:21 pm #392717

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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The wp-admin details seem to be wrong, i did not check the others, please check the details and let me know.

Thanks,

Stiofan

August 24, 2017 at 7:56 pm #392768

Look CT
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August 25, 2017 at 6:25 am #392821

Kiran
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Hi Look,

That admin password also not working, because you forgot to update .htaccess file in /test/ directory.
I have updated and now admin credential working.

I checked in your backend and there are some place listings there. From where they listings are created?

I need fresh test site which has not performed conversion.
– Create a test site from live site
– Disable GeoTheme theme
– Install GD + GD Addons
Then leave for us to test conversion from our side so we can do debugging.

Also we need admin credentials of you main site to look what listings are there with GeoTheme.

Kiran

August 31, 2017 at 4:36 am #393651

Look CT
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September 1, 2017 at 6:37 pm #393990

Stiofan O’Connor
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September 6, 2017 at 7:04 am #394456

Kiran
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September 12, 2017 at 4:39 am #395260

Look CT
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“search & replace “http://www.lookct.com/gd/” to “http://www.lookct.com/” in database.”

Hi guys, I did as directed… I logged into the /gd dashboard, activated search and replace plugin, ran the plugin http://www.lookct.com/gd/ to “http://www.lookct.com/ and nothing happened. I also put in my API for the maps.

Maybe im not doing it as you say?

Also… the ICONS are missing, look on the map menu and popular listing area… i see the words “icon” instead of the actual icon…

Can you please CC me on reply, [email protected]

September 12, 2017 at 5:04 am #395261

Look CT
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Apparently http://www.lookct.com/gd is gone now after i did a search and replace… I ran a local backup before i made any changes.. hopefully we can get this resolved and kicked off again.

Thanks for your assistance.

Mark (& Wil)

September 12, 2017 at 5:46 am #395267

Kiran
Moderator

Post count: 7069

Hi There,

Please check now, hi have moved all files from /gd/ to main site and now site working fine.
Now only things remain is to assign categories to the listings which has not any categories assigned yet.
You can assign categories by two way:
1) By manually editing the listing
2) Go GD Impirt/Export > Export Listings > Set categories > Re-Import

Let us know if you have any query.

Thanks,
Kiran
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