In reply to Dave Jesch.

Hi Dave,

To replicate such problem see the link i added. It is most common in scandinavian countries to have different collation because of the special characters in their language. We solved our issues by the solution given in that article and added the encode / decode method to options within the theme settings and page / post options the theme adds.

The article on your plugin by Jeff is not fully correct as the migrate fails on these kind of data. Although he starts with the statement that content can be migrated without touching the database. This only applies to plain none serialized data.

But if you really want to migrate a complete website without touching a database there is only one solution that works and that is the duplicator plugin. But that plugin also fails on some servers because of memory issues, security settings etc. In such case migrating content could be a very good solution and redo your settings for all the encrypted serialized stuff. But then again i can accomplish this already for all content with the default xml export import ability of wordpress itself (including all options, menu's etc.). The only advantage i see is that i can do a single page or post sync which no other plugin can do.

But then again Jeffs article is implying that it can migrate a complete website without touching the database. And that is incorrect. That was my point i was trying to make.