Hi! I recently moved my site over from Wix. I wanted to start relatively fresh, so what I did was create a temporary domain name, installed WordPress there, set up the theme and the rest of the site etc. Once I was finished working on the new site, I began the process of changing the domain name.
Everything seemed to be going smoothly. I’m a total newbie at this, but I found some instructions online, updated the DNS stuff blah blah, and after a day or two the site was up on the original domain name.
After the domain name transfer took place, I realized the site had some issues. It appeared that the theme ‘broke’? The structure of the site was all off, stuff is stacked up in weird ways, and it seems WPBakery (what I was using to create the main pages) doesn’t work anymore either. I went through and googled my ass off to find what could be the issue, but nothing I found online helped. I updated the URL everywhere I could using a find and replace, updated it in the dashboard, and no changes at all.
The site looked great before the URL change, so I guess that must be the causing issue, but does anyone know a way to fix it without needing to contact the theme creator (they charge for support.)?
My site has been down a few days and I’m starting to stress out over it, so any help would be very much appreciated. Sorry if I’m not mentioning some critical component, let me know if there is anymore info I can provide. Thank!
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Likely still have all your resources still using your previous domain’s url, which will be blocked due to CORS errors, because your new domain no longer matches domain of your resources like stylesheets, etc. There’s a great plugin called “Better Search Replace” (if you’d rather not do it manually in your database) where you can just input your old domain, then input your new domain and it’ll update all instances in your database to the new domain, which theoretically should fix the issue, or at least most of the issues.
Also, be very careful because you could render your site useless if you do it wrong.