Unserialize error: Error at offset X of Y bytes when updating URLs with wp search-replace
The goal is to move a small WordPress site to a new domain or server without any noticeable downtime, using WP‑CLI to export the database while the web server continues to serve cached pages and then import it onto the target environment. After the import, the site URLs must be updated, but the built‑in wp search‑replace command is known to break serialized