Moving Connections Directory to another site

@ Carol

If you are migrating an entire site then I recommend you use a plugin like Duplicator or BackupBuddy. If you want to migrate only the Connections data, it is possible but will require a moderate amount of work.

To start, Connections should not be installed on the destination site. If you have installed it, uninstall it and then use phpMyAdmin to drop the {wpdb_prefix}connections* from the WordPress database. There are 13 of them.

First, go to the Connections Tools admin page and export the settings.

Now, login into the source site and go to the Connections Settings admin page. Disable the FULLTEXT search option

Next, log into the source site’s phpMyAdmin and export those 13 tables as a SQL file. Use the quick export or default export options. I forget what the exact terminology is.

Log into the destination site phpMyAdmin and import that SQL file.

After the import is complete, you will need to change the wpdb_prefix of the imported table to match the wpdb_prefix of the destination site.

Now, log into the source site via FTP and navigate to the ../wp-content/uploads/ folder. You will find a folder named connections-images. Download that entire folder.

Next log into the destination site via FTP and navigate ../wp-content/uploads/ and upload the connections-images you just downloaded.

Now you can install and activate Connections on the destination site.

Import the settings on the Connections Tools admin page.

Lastly, toggle the FULLTEXT option on the Connections Settings admin page under the Search tab. Do this by disabling it and saving the setting, then enabling it and saving the setting. This will ensure the FULLLTEXT indices are created if the db supports it.

It sounds like a lot but it actually pretty quick with most time spent on logging in and out of the various part of the two sites.

Hope that helps!