This is a site migration conundrum / kerfuffle. It is not related to specific hosting, themes, or regarding generic CSS/HTML questions, so I think it is not in infraction of the rules.
Someone clever out there might just have fun with this riddle. I have a pretty strong idea as far as the culprit and solution but would love to hear what the WordPress-savvy community thinks.
I’ve had a website with “hosting co. 1” for a while. About two years ago, I migrated this site to a new place, let’s go with “hosting co. 2”. They did it, and did it well. All dandy. Why isn’t really the point but I wanted to move this site back to hosting co. 1. They have a free migration plugin, which I used and it seemed to work well. When the time came for the system to ask me to check whether the site look right, it did. So I checked that off… and appointed the DNS appropriately.
Surprise: the website that is now showing is an old version. I’m 99% certain it is what the site looked like before the migration to hosting co. 2.
Safe to say something went awry.
My plan going forward is to go in and wipe everything squeaky clean at hosting co. 1 – then, start from scratch with the migration. The site (the recent version) should still be located at hosting co. 2, but also I am able to login to wp admin and see the recent stuff there. So may even be able to install a migration plugin.
Seems as long as I start with a clean slate, the outcome will be better than it is now – since I lack the technical knowledge to pinpoint what is wrong at the moment. And yes should have probably started with a clean slate at hosting co. 1 to prevent this from happening (but didn’t think of it).
Has anyone ever had any experience migrating a site from a hosting company and migrating it back to that same hosting later on? It’s an odd thing, I know. 😀
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If I had to guess, the migration tool is the issue. Maybe it’s connecting with the old database that was never really deleted. Everything is in the database.
May be better to do a manual migration. Move the files and the upload the database yourself. At least you know you’re moving and using the latest version of everything.
This should point you in the right direction.[https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-wordpress-to-a-new-host-or-server-with-no-downtime/])
Make sure you back up before the migration.