Why Moving WordPress Content Between Sites Usually Breaks Something

Why moving WordPress content between sites usually breaks something — PostDeploy Pro Blog

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.

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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:

• A translated page shows the wrong language.
• An Elementor design folds into a single block of plain text.
• An ACF image field points at a picture that doesn't exist on the new site.

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.