{"id":248,"date":"2025-10-28T04:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m-rashed.com\/abidblog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2025-10-28T04:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:21:55","slug":"how-to-migrate-a-wordpress-website-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m-rashed.com\/abidblog\/2025\/10\/28\/how-to-migrate-a-wordpress-website-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to migrate a WordPress website?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A website is an online presence of your organization. Any organization creates a website for its own presence so that it can create its own awareness on the internet. Here you can get to know about them, about their organization, about their services. Apart from institutional websites, there are other websites such as personal and business websites where information is given on all kinds of tricks, ideas, entertainment, news, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may learn some ways to migrate or move your valuable website from one hosting to another or from one domain to another. Show us the way to migrate or clone a website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Migration might be needed for various reasons \u2013 to move hosts, to create a clone of your website on your computer to test or make changes, or to move the website from a localhost to a live server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than migrating our website, we may also have to back up the website. With the plugins that we will show you today, you can clone or migrate any WordPress site and also back up the website regularly. And then if your website becomes broken or hacked in any way, you can restore your website by uploading these backup files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initial method of transferring a WordPress website is by far the easiest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the managed WordPress hosts, such as Godaddy or SiteGround, will migrate you for free or provide a plugin you can use to migrate your site yourself. Just fill out a short form on their website with your current hosting and ask them to migrate you. This should take a day or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can also move sites to WordPress using some of the free plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All In One WP Migration Plugin:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Plugin link<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/strong> https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/all-in-one-wp-migration\/<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

All-in-One WP Migration Plugin is a popular migration plugin. It is extension independent, standalone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will migrate your database and media, plugins and themes. It is supported by the MySQL driver and new extensions have been included to migrate to popular cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive and Amazon S3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to migrate a WordPress website?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This add-on can resolve serialization issues and scale to mobile devices. You may add features including multisite support, transferring sites to much larger storages, and scheduled backups using the premium extension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By installing the plugin on the WordPress site, we can directly download the entire WordPress site files and database to our computer from the plugin’s export option. And when we move the site to another site or hosting in the future, we can also install a plugin on our WordPress site and upload the downloaded file to our computer from the import option, and the entire WordPress site will be replicated or copied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duplicator plugin:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Plugin link<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong>https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/duplicator\/<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After All-in-One WP Migration, the second most popular WordPress migration plugin is Duplicator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is essentially similar to All-in-One WP Migration. You activate the plugin on your site and it allows you to package your whole site into two files. Then you just upload those files to your new server and let the migration wizard handle it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What to observe with Duplicator is that the free version will suffice only for small to medium WordPress sites. If you have a very big WordPress site, you’ll have to purchase the premium version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may also use Duplicator Pro to install your site to a cloud storage area or FTP, which is ideal for transferring large sites. The Duplicator plugin is free. The premium option, which you will need, will set you back $69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WP Migrate DB Plugin:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Plugin link<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-migrate-db\/<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

WP Migrate DB is another free and popular plugin that is employed to move your WordPress site. WP Migrate DB works differently from most plugins, it scans and replaces file paths and URLs to move. The plugin does a find and replace on the serialized strings in an attempt to identify strings. The information is serialized and stored in the database. This functionality transfers information from their installed and live sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It handles serialized data properly and saves it as a SQL file locally on your machine. After you have generated the SQL file, you will need to use phpMyAdmin to import the SQL file into your database in place of your existing database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During migration, you can also drop unwanted files and you can also configure the migration settings such that in the future you can migrate again with only a single click.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Migrate Guru Plugin:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Plugin link<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/migrate-guru\/<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Migrate Guru is a WordPress plugin for migration developed by the Blog Vault team. It is the best website migration tool to a new host or server and has support for almost all popular WordPress hosting providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is a migration wizard in which you have to set your hosting via FTP or cPanel. But it is not entirely compatible for multi-site migration. But the biggest strength of this plugin is that this plugin migrates or transfers various types of big websites such as websites up to 200gb easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updraft Plus Plugin:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Plugin link<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/updraftplus\/<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Updraftplus is a free WordPress plugin for cloning and migrating any WordPress website. It is a very powerful plugin with high ratings. With the help of this plugin, you can clone your whole website with manual and automatic backups. You can even migrate your website’s database and files separately using this plug-in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can even store the exported file to Google Drive, Dropbox, Rackspace Cloud, Google Cloud Storage, FTP, and via email. You can even split huge sites into many smaller archives with this plugin if you do not want to import the entire site, and you can selectively backup and restore any section of your site, such as files, databases, or themes, separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pro version will feature support for backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Copy.com, etc. It also has the capability to transfer backups from other plugins, such as BackWPup. Database backup is encrypted for security reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And lastly, there is no need to waste your time and energy to manually migrate the website. You can migrate your website quickly in a matter of minutes using any of the above-discussed migration plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from migrating, all these plugins also have the option to automatically backup at certain intervals and then later if your site is corrupted in some way or the site is hacked, you can just restore it using these backups by uploading them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more blogs and WordPress from <\/strong>here<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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