Comments on: How To Move A WordPress Blog or Website

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:10:12 +0000

I’m glad our plugin helped you. If you decided not to renew your old domain and your site is now on a new domain, then it shouldn’t have any effect. Of course, I’d need to know more details of how your sites are set up before I could give you a definite recommendation.

By: A Maslin

A Maslin — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:38:50 +0000

Thanks so much for this plugin! What would happen if I didn’t renew the contract on my “old” domain?

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:45:26 +0000

No, I haven’t tried that tool.

By: Dan J

Dan J — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:00:41 +0000

Have you ever tried or seen this? halty.net/website_mover_0.2.zip
claims to be compatible with wordpress but I am reluctant to try this on my live blog (my goal is to switch from godaddy to dreamhost and I have a new domain at dreamhost)

Dan

By: Torbjørn

Torbjørn — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:15:29 +0000

What is the best way to move a wordpress installation from localhost to a new domain on an external server?

By: Munish

Munish — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:02:23 +0000

Thanks a bunch Friend! This post helped me in moving my wordpress site.

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By: THH

THH — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:26:36 +0000

Hello Velvet,

I’ve been reading through your posts and comments on people’s blog. I think I have an understanding of what to do, but I’m not completely confident that I wont screw something up. Any help is really appreciated. Here’s my situation:

I have a current website with a recent, but older version of WordPress. My hosting company has created a new Theme and placed it into an updqated version of WordPress. The problem is that the hosting company will not transfer anything from the old website into the new one. Things that need to be transferred are custom Plug-ins, pages and many PDF files (my catalog).

I can do the XML import/export function very easily, but it doesn’t sound like that will transfer the PDFs and plug-ins. For this I guess I have to go into my ftp site. The hosting company claims they provide this to me, but the only link provided is to my WordPress page. Are these URLs one in the same?

What do you suggest? Will import/export xml cover evrything or just pages. Do I need to find the FTP page and is that page a separate link from my WordPress URL? Please help. Thanks, -Ted

By: Timmy Howard

Timmy Howard — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:23:59 +0000

Hey guys, thanks for this, I used a bunch of your database stuff in a presentation the other day. It kicked ass. Thanks again!!

Tim

By: Aman

Aman — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:25:44 +0000

Hi,
i just purchased this blog and am transferring to my FTP.

I have tried both methods mentioned in :-

Move WordPress to a New Hosting Package

but i get errors in both.

My XML import file is 26 MB so in one go it doesnt let me import.

ive tried breaking it down into smaller files but then it cant create and import all authors so all posts go under admin.

if i try importing SQL DB in phpmyadmin i get this error :-

error 1054 – Unknown column ‘link_category’ in ‘field list’

Please help

By: Ashley Sue Bullers @AshleySue

Ashley Sue Bullers @AshleySue — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:22:32 +0000

Thank you! Seriously, I have spent two days and a lot of eye-strain reading a multitude of articles, none of which helped me switch servers or correct some of the glitches…. then I found your article! Bam! It’s the complete necessity guide. If only I had found it first! Then again, then I would potentially think everyone was great at explaining things, and instead, I know that true experts are few and far. Thank you again.

By: Ola Löfvén

Ola Löfvén — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 08:46:01 +0000

Great guide. I also put up a guide, and recently moved a few installations when changing webhost. Perhaps your guide is a little easier to read

By: john

john — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:11:29 +0000

Thanks for the tips. We just moved the deal zippy blog from blog.dealzippy.co.uk to http://www.dealzippy.co.uk/blog. Had resisted doing it for ages as I thought it would a lot of hassle but actually the process is pretty simple, lots of good plugins about to help with migration these days.

By: didier

didier — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:50:33 +0000

Hi guys,
i have exactly the same issue as posted by bob on march 10 2010
Help!!

tx
didier

On March 11th, 2010 at 6:39 pm, Bob wrote:
I have moved our wordpress site to a new domain and it is mostly successful using your plugin. All the images appear correctly in the posts and pages however when I’m using the admin pages, nothing appears in the “Media Library”.

All of the jpg files were moved to wp-content/uploads folder with year and month directory structure.

Why don’t these files show up in the Media Library?

Any help would be much appreciated.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:33:28 +0000

Between your clear ‘how-to’ description, and your nifty plug-in, the move from my testing directory to ‘live’ was astonishingly easy! Thank you…. but then I screwed it up!

In the process, I discovered two things that others might want to be aware of (:

Good: if you have CPanel, it’s a faster and easier way to dupe your files than the ‘two window’ FTP routine.

Bad: if you do move the entire WordPress installation successfully, and use Fantasico, don’t remove the installation from the old directory! Even though you copied the files, the server is still looking there (as I understand it)

So you’ll lose all access, and have a lot of juggling to do to get it back. I haven’t succeeded yet, in fact…. but all my files are there, so it in theory it’s a matter of figuring out how to link them – I hope!

By: artanology

artanology — Thu, 19 May 2011 09:49:21 +0000

Amazing! Honestly I ran through 100′s of websites searching for a solution why my images werent displayed and your step by step process gave me the solution! Plugin – Update URLs plugin really worked wonders for me!!! thank you

By: Harry Rate

Harry Rate — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:51:16 +0000

Useful set of instructions, but this process hasn’t always worked for me.

With my latest move I had to actually copy all the files in the wordpress folder + all the database files directly. Seems to have worked though.

By: Slush Machine For Sale

Slush Machine For Sale — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:41:03 +0000

Hi there. I really need your help. I did whatever you explained in the section “Move WordPress to a New Hosting Package”. I uploaded wp-content to my new host. I exported the xml file and imported from the new wordpress admin. Plugins seem to be working fine. But I couldn’t reach the website. the wp-config file is the new one (the one when I install wordpress brand new).
The website doesn’t work. The page is shown empty. Please help
Thanks in advance
CD

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:12:02 +0000

Great SQL scripts thanks. The scripts are very simple to run and amend and it is definitely worth running the SQL scripts twice; once with ‘www’ for the ‘old’ domain and once without ‘www.

By: kjolson

kjolson — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:17:32 +0000

If I move the WP contents from a folder to the root directory does this plugin update the links in all of the page, php, and css files?

Example:

Current website URLs:
http://www.landscape.com/home
http://www.landscape.com/home/soil

Desired new website URLs:
http://www.landscape.com
http://www.landscape.com/soil

*NOTE: these URLs are just examples

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/

By: jay

jay — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:12:27 +0000

Hi, Thanks for the simple instructions. Before I attempt a move, I just want to confirm a couple things.

I am simply moving my blog to a different host. Same URL, same location, at root.

Can I just FTP my entire root and all files and folders to the new server – not just the wp-content folder?

If not, will your method 1 get all the theme related stuff?

Alos, I have seen some complaints on the internet about WP export import not working well, dropping some posts and comments. Can the export/import function be trusted?

Thanks!

By: John V

John V — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:20:15 +0000

Aysh,

There’s a good chance you’ll need to use “Method 2: Work Directly With The Database”.

I’ve moved many WP sites just using the “Update URLs” plugin method. But my last WP site move wasn’t working using the plug-in method. So I opted for working with the database. It worked flawlessly but it’s not for the faint of heart as you have to upload the sql file to your new database and update a wp php file. Sorry I didn’t take notes how I did it and I’m sure I’d be starting all over again if I have to do it again.

Best,

John V.

By: Aysh

Aysh — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:07:57 +0000

My question is just like Bob’s on 3/11/2010, but I didn’t see an answer here about why uploaded items still don’t show up in the Media Library even though everything is on the new server in the right month/year folders and I’ve used the plug-in to update the links. Would love to know about it. Thanks

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:06:39 +0000

Thanks for replying. I decided not to disable the plugins and just deal with any problems I might find once I get the site to the new host.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:19:56 +0000

Disabling plugins might be a good idea. After all, some plugins will need to be disabled/enabled to work on a new host. But for my moves, I rarely do that as some plugins delete information when disabled.

By: sergio

sergio — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:23:19 +0000

Gracias por la informacion me ayudo bastante saludos desde Bolivia.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:02:12 +0000

I have read in other places that you should disable your plugins before making a backup of the database that will be imported at the new host. Is this necessary?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:56:37 +0000

I originally installed my wordpress years ago as an add on to my static pages, to add a blog. At that time I thought I was being smart by installing it in www.mydomain.com/blog/

Now, I have all my static pages inside wordpress but still at www.mydomain.com/blog/ with a simple index.html entry page at mydomain.com that leads into the wordpress installation.

I’m kind of scared now to make the move from /blog/ to root installation. I have 500+ posts / pages and photos and comments and I’m not sure how to do it anyway.

I see under General Settings some options for naming blog url etc. but am afraid to touch that (both point to mydomain.com/blog) and the link from there to the codex suggests how to do it the opposite way, that is from root to a subfolder.

What would be the safest, easiest and best way to make this type of move? What are some of the cautions one need to take? How about redirects? I have redirect installed, it should take care of all that… right?

By: Lillie

Lillie — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:11:37 +0000

Forgive me for being dense… I am moving my WordPress site from a directory under one domain to the root of another domain. I am not sure if I should be following Method 1 under “Move WordPress to a New Hosting Package”
or Option 1 under “Move WordPress to a New Domain or Directory” or a combination of both? Thanks in advance for your help.

By: Cumhur

Cumhur — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:37:19 +0000

Thanks for the reply. The new installation worked on the admin side. I couldn’t reach the webpage. It was blank as I told you. I had to get back to my old installation and old hosting.
One suggestion though. You have a marvelous blog here. You are explaining things really good. Nevertheless you have to keep in mind that you know what you’re talking, I don’t. so maybe a little bit more explanation would be really handy, like a video recording shows that you’re actually moving one to a new hosting.
Changing DNS addresses (before or after) editing config.php file etc.
And put that in youtube also
I would really appreciate if you can edit or write a new one which elimiates all the questions from your humble visitors and the people in need.
Thanks again