I am testing how to migrate my site to a new domain by migrating to a laptop. All files and database were transferred and both ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ changed in the database options table. I also edited the posts and meta tables replace old url with new url wherever necessary. Everything seemed to work OK except links to images. I tracked this down to code like src=”/wp-content/…..”. The new WordPress root is ‘wproot’ which is under the default website root, so editing to src=”/wproot/wp-content/…..” works fine. If now I use SQL to change all references in ‘posts’ to the format above it doesn’t correct them all and when using the editor to see what has happened I get a message ‘Unexpected content of invalid data’. ‘Resolve’ doesn’t make a lot of sense and ‘Convert to HTML’ destroys the layout.
Any advice on how to deal with this problem on migrating a site would be appreciated. Thanks, John
Page Builder & Site Origin Editor – Unexpected content error
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Hi John
Thanks for reaching out.
The easiest would be to use Duplicator or All-in-One WP Migration.
When doing search and replace operations, you might consider https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/.
Page Builder uses serialized data, any migration or search and replace operations have to be done with a tool or method that supports serialized data.