So I was working on a local church’s website today on my local machine and decided to test drive the “demo” site on a remote server. I thought everything would be all fine and dandy, all I had to do was:

1. Export the local database tables and import them into a remote database.
2. FTP the local site content to the remote server.
3. Go into the remote database, find the “wp_options” table and make sure the site is directing to the remote address instead of the local.
4. Done!

WRONG!!

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