Question

I am migrating a wordpress site from one domain to the other.Plugins lose my preferences in the process.I really don’t understand why.I’m curious as to why this happens.

Here are the steps i went through:

1. uploaded wordpress files from localhost 
   through FTP on the new domain ( http://example-live.com )
2. uploaded database to the new domain
3. changed all links referring to http://localhost to http://example-live.com
4. treated text_widgets differently because they are serialized in the db.
5. edited .htaccess
6. updated wp_config.php 

Pages display normally but I am missing plugin preferences…Any thoughts ?

Edit: Found this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

Answer 1

Eventually I decided to automate the process and used the WordPress Duplicator Plugin (free) which can be found here http://lifeinthegrid.com/labs/duplicator/.