WordPress: Migration

Learn how to move a WordPress site from one location to another by duplicating and resetting your database.

Introduction

• WordPress site migration
• What you should know

1. Preparing Your Site for Migration

• Preparing for migration
• Changing protocols
• Changing domains
• Changing hosts
• Moving from local development to live

2. Migration Tools

• Command-line interface (CLI)
• Moving files with FTP
• Importing and exporting MySQL databases

3. Migration Plugins

• Programmatic migration tools
• Migrate with WordPress import/export
• Migrate with Duplicator
• Migrate with WP Migrate DB
• Migrate with WP Migrate DB Pro
• Migrate with Migrate Guru

4. Common Problems and Solutions

• File permissions
• PHP support incompatibility
• Missing files

Conclusion

• Next steps