Hi,

I've worked on a wordpress website locally (purchased theme from themeforest.com) via MAMP https://www.mamp.info and wanted to uploaded it all to my Hostgator site host. I have Cyberduck sftp set up to transfer files.

However, when I upload my child theme to wordpress/hostgator all my images I have in my locally worked on website and all my plugin's (and their settings) are not there. It's only showing the parent theme old ones I had worked on previously.

How do I upload my entire edited local theme including all images and plugins, all those extras with their settings the same as locally? I'm hoping I don't have to do all it all again.

Thanks

Kindly upload complete wp-content folder

and then upload your local database and connect it in wp-config.php file

Hope it works !

Images in the uploads folder will often have their references hardcoded into the database. So even after importing the database you might have source attributes looking for your localhost directory.

This plug in will allow you to quickly relpace all references:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/

Make sure any of your themes or plugins makes references to any absolute url.

As Nillervision has mentioned, image paths are stored in the database as absolute urls, so you have to do some search replace with your local mysql dump file, then replace it with one at your host.

If you want to quickly port your local wp into live including wordprss, themes, plugins, posts, contents etc try using a free plugin called Duplicate.