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Can't Migrate 8 PODs #5073

Open dawnbuie opened 6 years ago

dawnbuie commented 6 years ago

Describe the bug I can't migrate my 8 PODs to a new Wordpress install.

To Reproduce I have 8 functional PODs that are based on Page Types I turned on the Migrate Packages component and check all boxes. These are the results I get:

{"meta":{"version":"2.7.6","build":1532480499},"pods":[]}

I did try pasting that code in the Import Migrate section of the POD area in the new site but not surprisingly - it did nothing.

Expected behavior Have the POD types defined in the new Wordpress installation

Pods Version

Version 2.7.6

WordPress Environment

``` Copy and paste your System Details from **Pods Admin > Settings > Debug Information** in PHP Version: 7.1.9 MySQL Version: 5.7.20 Server Software: Apache Your User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0 Session Save Path: /tmp Session Save Path Exists: Yes Session Save Path Writeable: Yes Session Max Lifetime: 1440 Opcode Cache: Apc: No Memcached: No OPcache: Yes Redis: No Object Cache: APC: No APCu: No Memcache: No Memcached: No Redis: No WPDB Prefix: wp_ WP Multisite Mode: No WP Memory Limit: 40M Pods Network-Wide Activated: No Pods Install Location: /var/home/libby/wp5.libbydavies.ca/www/wp-content/plugins/pods/ Pods Tableless Mode Activated: No Pods Light Mode Activated: No Currently Active Theme: Twenty Seventeen Currently Active Plugins: Pods - Custom Content Types and Fields: 2.7.6 WordPress Importer: 0.6.4 ```

Pods Package Export (helpful!)

Copy and Paste the JSON Export from **Pods Admin, Migrate: Packages, Export** in WordPress admin here

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

Possible Workaround If you have discovered a workaround, please include it below.

dawnbuie commented 6 years ago

OK - update - so I figured out my PODs were destroyed by a content import tool I was using DrupaltoWordpress Plugin.

I thought the pluging had worked perfectly - because I was able to assined the custom content type from Drupal to my newly created Wordpress PODs - and the populated the content types correctly! However when I went back to edit the PODs themselves I saw their pod names had been changed from something like 'update' to the title of the last Update items imported - with spaces so 'A Great Story about Surfing".

I then tried editing the POD name manually to set it back to 'update' but when I saved that I was locked out of the PODs Admin page - getting 'you are not allowed to access this page' message.

Luckily I had done many backup version of the database - so I restored the version before importing all that content - and then I was able to export the PODs and import into a new WP site.

However I still have this import issue. Why did the POD structural data get overwritten so easily? Would it be safer for me to enable the Table Storage component:

  | Enable a custom database table for your custom fields on Post Types, Media, Taxonomies, Users, and

Or the Advanced Content Types:

A content type that exists outside of the WordPress post and postmeta table and uses custom tables

I have made custom content types in WP manually before and I thought PODs would save me a lot of time (I love the HTML field options too) - but if they get destroyed/overwritten this easily I don't feel good using them.

Here is my export code for the PODs:

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sc0ttkclark commented 6 years ago

It sounds like a few things may be happening here:

Nothing you have described seems to be Pods-specific. I really do wish it was so we could fix it all for you. I'm sorry you experienced this problem with that script, I hope your setup is working for you now that you were able to to the backup/restore.

dawnbuie commented 6 years ago

Hi there - thanks for the reply. I did try some other migrations scripts that did the same thing - and every realized:

Pods configurations are stored as post types. If a plugin deletes all posts, then the configurations get lost at the same time

That's why I asked about protecting existing PODs but turning on the Table Storage component:

  | Enable a custom database table for your custom fields on Post Types, Media, Taxonomies, Users, and

I did try that but it didn't seem to have an effect.

sc0ttkclark commented 6 years ago

Pods hooks into the normal post/meta API, so even though it's content could be stored in a table, that does not mean it gets retained. If wp_delete_post is called, it will delete that data wherever it exists.