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I used the Duplicator plugin today to move my production website to my local PC, to test out theme updates, WP updates, etc. Frustratingly, Duplicator left a lot of things undone, and had to sort out by hand.
1. SQL was incomplete. I had to delete all the local table, then run the installer-data.sql
2. Update links from http://production.com to localhost using this http://codepen.io/EightArmsHQ/full/nzEjI
3. Child themes simply did not copy – I had to go back and FTP my child theme. Then reinstall the parent theme.
I have to say the reviews of this tool simply did not indicate problems of this nature. And while I’m new to WP, I’ve been in software development for year (that’s what helped me sort out these issues).
Is this just normal SOP for this tool? Or did I do something wrong that cascaded these problems?