#moving wordpress

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WordPress Move

This plugin enables you to back up your installation to restore to at any time, change the domain name in use and migrate your installation to another server.

WordPress Move is a migration assistant for WordPress that is capable of changing the domain name in use and/or migrating your installation to another server either as is or based on your choices. In addition to these, you can use WordPress Move to transfer your database or create backups of your installation. For further information on using the plugin, please refer to the documentation provided with the plugin.

Migrating an existing blog to a new server

Back up of your (original/existing) blog's WordPress database before proceeding!

There will come a time when you will have to move an wordpress site from one server to another server. This can be easy or difficult depending on where your moving from and where your moving to. The very first place I would look for instructions would be both hosting companies specific instructions. A lot of legit hosts have specific wordpress instructions for installing wordpress or even moving it. Read that first! Here are some from a few major host companies…

Moving To a New Server – WordPress Codex

Moving WordPress to a new Server with ZERO downtime

Moving WordPress to DreamHost

Moving WordPress with Godaddy

Moving WordPress with Bluehost

Moving WordPress with HostGator

Moving WordPress with HostMonster

Moving WordPress with WestHost

MastermindBlogger's illustrated advice...

Alternatively:

Part A - Activating your new blog

Download your entire WordPress installation to your hard drive. Name the folder appropriately to indicate that this is your OLD blog's installation.

Download your database.

Go back to your OLD blog and go to options and change the url (both of them) to that of your new site.

Again, download your entire WordPress installation to your hard drive. Name the folder appropriately to indicate that this is your NEW blog's installation.

Download your database once again (but keep the old one). Upload this database to your new server. It will be easiest if you use the same database name and you create a user with the same login credentials on your new server as on your old server.

If you used a different database name and/or user (see previous step),  edit wp-config.php in your NEW blog's installation folder appropriately.

Upload the NEW blog's installation folder to your new site. Presto, your NEW blog should be working!

Part B - Restoring your old blog

On the original server, delete your OLD blog's database.(remember, you should have a copy on your local computer that you made at the very beginning).

Upload your OLD blog's installation folder to your original server, overwriting the files that are currently there (you may also delete the installation folder on the server and simply re-upload the OLD blog's files).

Upload your OLD blog's database from your local computer to the server.

Another procedure for making copies of posts, comments, pages, categories and custom field (post status, data, permalinks, ping status...) easy to follow:

Install a new Wordpress blog.

Go on old blog Admin panel. Here, in Manage > Export select "all" in menu Restrict Author.

Click on Download Export File.

In new blog go on Manage > Import, choose Wordpress item.

In the page that will be shown, select the file just exported. Click on Upload file and Import.

Assign the author to users that already exist or create new ones.

Click on Submit.

Example:

peakfitness.asia (CrazyDomains.co.nz)

peakfitness.co (GoDaddy.com)

peakfitness.maori.nz (CrazyDomains.co.nz)

peakfitness2014.co.nz (OpenHost.co.nz)

peakfitness2014.com (CrazyDomains.co.nz)

peakfitness2014.info (GoDaddy.com)

Database update process:

Write down the MySQL Name/Username and Password. You need this later.

Write down the host of your MySQL database. For more information, see Locating Your Database's Host Name.

On your local machine, open the the previously saved folder that contains your WordPress website's files.

Locate the wp-config.php file in the root directory of your WordPress folder, and then open it using a text editor program such as Notepad.

Locate the following string of code:

/** The name of the database for WordPress */ define('DB_NAME', 'CoolExample'); /** MySQL database username */ define('DB_USER', 'CoolUsername'); /** MySQL database password */ define('DB_PASSWORD', 'CoolPassword'); /** MySQL hostname */ define('DB_HOST', 'CoolHostname');

Replace the Database Name, seen here as CoolExample with the Database Name/Username that you created during the previous steps. Make sure you keep the single quotes around the name you type.

Replace the Database Name/Username, seen here as CoolUsername with the Database Name/Username that you created during the previous steps. Make sure you keep the single quotes around the name you type.

Replace the Database Password , seen here as CoolPassword with the Database Password that you created during the previous steps. Make sure you keep the single quotes around the name you type.

Replace the Database Hostname, seen here as CoolHostname with the Database Hostname that you noted during the previous steps. Make sure you keep the single quotes around the name you type.

Note to self as a reminder on how to move a Wordpress installation to another url… in this case to a localhost site so that I can develop locally.

First backup your current wordpress database. Follow instructions here to do that: How to Backup your Wordpress Database

Here you have a choice: You can save all your Wordpress files (including the core files) or just save the stuff you changed. This will probably only be the directories in wp-content, with themes and uploads being the most important. Saving the plugins is mostly for convenience sake, because you can always download them again. If you did change some core wordpress files you will want to save that stuff too. If you go with the second option, you will need to download the core Wordpress files again so that you can reinstall it.

If your local site is not already set up, then set it up. If you want to set up a new VirtualHost, here are the instructions on how to set it up using MAMP. Import all your Wordpress files into the directory for this site, making sure that you put all the directories where they belong (i.e. put themes in wp-content).

Create your local database and import your old database. You will also have to do some find and replace on the SQL tables. See example SQL query below. For more instructions go here Changing the site url

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE ( guid, ‘http://exampleoldsiteurl.com’, ‘http://examplenewsiteurl.com’);

Edit your wp-config file and point it to the new database. Fill in the user and password info if necessary.

At this point, start your local server if it is not already started and point your browser to the new site url. Your site should be live, but there will still be a link problem.

Log into your wordpress admin page (yoursite/wp-admin) and go to Settings –> Permalinks. You need to reset your permalinks so change the permalink structure to one of the unselected options, hit save, and then change it back to the one you want, and hit save.

Everything should work great now.