The latest articles on DEV Community by Sameer ul Hassan (@samworkdev). https://dev.to/samworkdev https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4154938%2F3e746ac3-df8c-408e-9c55-d17b0907c870.png https://dev.to/samworkdev en Sameer ul Hassan Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:53:57 +0000 https://dev.to/samworkdev/why-moving-wordpress-content-between-sites-usually-breaks-something-kl0 https://dev.to/samworkdev/why-moving-wordpress-content-between-sites-usually-breaks-something-kl0 <div class="crayons-card c-embed text-styles text-styles--secondary"> <div class="c-embed__content"> <div class="c-embed__cover"> <a href="https://www.postdeploy.pro/blog/why-wordpress-migrations-break" class="c-link align-middle" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <img alt="" src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fpostdeploy.pro%2Fassets%2Fimg%2Fog-image.png" height="420" class="m-0" width="800"> </a> </div> <div class="c-embed__body"> <h2 class="fs-xl lh-tight"> <a href="https://www.postdeploy.pro/blog/why-wordpress-migrations-break" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="c-link"> Why moving WordPress content between sites usually breaks something — PostDeploy Pro Blog </a> </h2> <p class="truncate-at-3"> WPML translations lose their links, Elementor pages fold into plain text, ACF fields point at the wrong image. It's not a bug in those plugins — it's what happens when content moves between two different databases. </p> <div class="color-secondary fs-s flex items-center"> <img alt="favicon" class="c-embed__favicon m-0 mr-2 radius-0" src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postdeploy.pro%2Fassets%2Fimg%2Ficon-pro.svg" width="128" height="128"> postdeploy.pro </div> </div> </div> </div> <p>If you've ever copied a WordPress page from staging to production, or from one client site to another, you've probably seen at least one of these:</p> <ul> <li>A translated page shows the wrong language.</li> <li>An Elementor design folds into a single block of plain text.</li> <li>An ACF image field points at a picture that doesn't exist on the new site.</li> </ul> <p>None of it is a bug in WPML, Elementor, or Advanced Custom Fields. It's what happens, by default, whenever WordPress content moves between two different databases — which is every single time you move it anywhere.</p> wordpress website product