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Replacing "subdomain." prefix with empty string ""

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go, sql, wordpress
Domain
cli, databases

Research direction

No source file or test is named in the issue. Start at the script's URL-replacement entry point and trace how it handles serialized PHP objects and multisite URLs; verify the staging. prefix can be removed from every matching URL without corrupting serialized data.

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Description

Have recently come across your wonderful script to cure Wordpress database copies between domains.

Have one more challenge - I just need to replace "staging." subdomain in all urls mentioned in sql file (including serialized PHP objects).

So replacement is just empty string (""). My wordpress installation is multi-site, so there are multiple subsiteX.maindomain.com urls as well as staging.subsiteX.maindomain.com on staging server.

While migrating from staging to production we need to delete away the "staging." subdomain.

Dominant language
Go
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108
Forks
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