Comments on: How We Migrate WordPress – A Complete Guide

By: Lasse

Lasse — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:12:53 +0000

Check out ManageWp from (now GoDaddy) Orion. I’ve used it on a few client sites and even my own. Works great and includes backup, updating themes and plugins and moving sites between servers.

By: Gaurav Heera

Gaurav Heera — Thu, 18 May 2017 09:23:06 +0000

Woow .. This to simply move a WordPress site? Possibly I missed something then, since I never utilized this a lot of work to move customers sites .. Gee .. Possibly I ought to, and raise my compensation

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:01:35 +0000

Thanks for saving us some time!!

Leif – Would love to know how you do it so quickly 🙂

By: Rob Neu

Rob Neu — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 05:02:22 +0000

In reply to Steve Clarke.

We’ve tested Duplicator a few times in the past and the results have been pretty mixed. On smaller, less complex sites it seems to do a pretty good job, but that would really only cover a small percentage of our customers. If your site has a ton of media files or a sizable database, Duplicator just isn’t a very good option in my experience.

The processes we use have worked well for sites ranging from a simple local business site up to a massive multisite network of publishers. Sometimes they could be considered overkill, but since we use the techniques so often it really wouldn’t save us any time to use something like Duplicator, so we go with what we know! ?

By: Steve Clarke

Steve Clarke — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:25:46 +0000

I use the Duplicator plugin to migrate WordPress sites every day (https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/). It packages up your WP site and creates a downloadable zip file containing files and database. Along with that it provides an installer.php file. You simply copy the two files into the root directory of your destination and load the installer.php. It somes with Search/Replace built in, so it takes care of modifying the URLs for you. Highly recommended!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 23:50:00 +0000

In reply to Leif. Yes Leif....do share please? How do you do it?

By: Ryan Sullivan

Ryan Sullivan — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 02:59:51 +0000

In reply to Anh Tran. Definitely, Anh! We love WP-CLI but lots of hosts don't support it out of the box unfortunately. We tried to write this in a way that would cover as many hosts as possible. Thanks for chiming in!

By: Anh Tran

Anh Tran — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 00:33:22 +0000

If you use command line tool, you should check out WP-CLI, which has a powerful command for search and replace string in the DB. In case you don’t have access to command line on the host, these solution are the best.

By: Ginger

Ginger — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 05:33:19 +0000

Excellent article, thank you ! I went ahead and bought a license to WP Migrate DB Pro after the media files add-on came out, it is a great feature. A couple of things that I run into quite frequently that might help others: the media files add-on I believe moves everything in the /uploads folder. I've found some older sites have a huge amount of data in that folder that does not belong to WordPress, as such you might timeout. Also, I frequently get the problem of mismatched table prefixes. I've used the plugin Change Table Prefix to remedy this.

By: Ozzy Rodriguez

Ozzy Rodriguez — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:14:55 +0000

In reply to Stefanie Newton.

DesktopServer is a great tool, Stephanie! (We use it quite a bit, as well)

Just keep the tools we went over in the post in mind when moving sites from one server to another, or bringing one down to work locally or pushing it up after you’re done with local development. They’ll save you tons of time!