How to MANUALLY Migrate Your Wordpress Site (still works in 2024)

Very helpful. Clear and smoothly delivered. What a gift you are to a learning community!
thank you so much

I thank you for this usefull content.

I love you man💪

You are an excellent teacher

Thank You! Thank You!! Thank You!!!

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As a total beginner you lost me in the first 20 seconds!! Sorry

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I have found missing tables. I did not see them on the left sidebar in phpmyadmin, but I found them scrolling down the table list (previous I picked my database). I did not know phpmyadmin dont show every tables on the left sidebar. Thanks for your helpful video :)

Very helpfull tutorial, but I have a little problem. When I have imported my .sql database file, I dont see tables like xyz_options, etc. Maybe this database was created in older WordPress version, and in consequence there are not tables like these. Do you know how resolve this problem to correctly upload website with new url's?

You are the BOMB, works, thanks man!

does it work with divi? also the host I'm on is on windows servers the one I want to move to is on linux servers will this tutorial still work for me?I'm so glad you have this here I just hope ti will work going from my curren those with Plesk to cpanel on a new host. I will also be transferring my same domain. will that work?

thank you amazing tutorials

Is the process the same if you have multiple sites/domains on one private server? To migrate to a shared server, still within bluehost. Would I still work out of public_html or would I go into the nested files and compress wp-content individually for each site within the folder tree? Hopefully this makes sense

I was starting to work on a WordPress site local thinking that would be easier to implement than reproducing a Figma design, but then I thought "I better make sure this will be easy to migrate". Love that WordPress lets you own the whole install, but this is way more involved than I realized. I don't want to break anything, so I think I'm going to stick with Figma.

Thank you so much for this tutorial! It is a life-saver! Following this, I have avoided $49 charge my host was going to charge me!

Perfect! Everyone says that plugins are easier and to just let them do the work for you. But honestly, I feel safer with a simple manual backup; it could be my OCD but knowing with 100% certainty that all my files are backed up (locally) feels more reassuring than relying on a plugin to do that for me on cloud storage.

I'd like to do this because frankly I can't afford it. It's seems so many things are subscription based and I can't afford it. I'd love to be able to transfer it to a custom lamp stack. Id like to use my Raspberry Pi 4 and make it a LAMP or a LEMP stack.

After, watching so many tutorials on migrating WP sites, this is the best so far. Thanks @Josh

I just have a small 5 page website, that I have never touched since I built it 6 years ago, nor do I ever need to edit it.
I have always been with Bluehost and the WordPress. What is the cheapest company I can use to simply continue having the same simple 5 page informational website, of which I'm never going to manipulate? Any information is very much appreciated! TY

If I create a Website with Premium Themes or Plugins like Woodmart, Divi, Revolution Slider, and Visual Composer then What will happen? Is it possible to transfer? My question is that Most of the Premium themes is used for single user and when I transfer my created Website with The Premium theme then what will happen when I transfer to another server and domain? Because after completing the transformation we are two users of one Premium theme? Hope you Understand Sir. Would you please help me to clear the fact?

you are the best, you explained it in an easy way. many thanks :)

Thank you!

Amazing tutorial sir

I tried to migrate from my old host (000webhost) to a new host because the all-in-one wp migration plugin didn't work for me. I have followed the instructions from your video and didn't work... could you explain me why, it could be a hosting problem or anything else?

can you do video on this How to Move WordPress from a SubDomain to a SubDirectory

LIFE SAVING VIDEO. A big and fat: Thank you!
That video explained it gorgeously easy.

Hi

I've purchased domain name in NameCheap and I instaled package from another domain in CPanel file manager. This page now has all elements from previous domain.

However things have changed and I need different set of files from yet another domain to be present on this one.

Can I simply delete all files in file manager from domain I'm working on and then select all/copy >> paste all files from the domain I actually need?

Will that create any problems?

I can edit content in Word press bit by bit manually but if there is a way to copy/paste this all at once it would save me hours of work. PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

Thanks, Josh Great vid seriously helped me a lot

Thank you

Thanks so much! I have successfully migrate the site! :)
That you told us to drink a coffee is most helpful too!! Love it!

Was actually stuck that tables prefix couldn't understand why the data was going a different. Video was very helpful 💯👍🏽

Really good tutorial! The only thing, when I try to login in Wordpress, I can't. The page remain on login and it doesn't give me any error.
What should I do? Thank you

The only tutorial that adds all the pieces - and does so clearly!

Thank you so much. No plugin worked for me so far. But now I've got it.

Thanks man, helped allot!

This tutorial helped me a lot, huge thank you💗

I used this process and followed every step you outlined, and it worked on the first 2 websites I did it on. And now, for some reason, it's not installing the plugins on Wordpress. They show in the file manager, but they don't exist on the Wordpress Plugins side. Any idea why this is happening?

amazing help and it help me a lot to migrate my one big size of wordpress from one server to another server..........thanks a billion
josh .......... u r amazing

Can I migrate my Wordpress site (that has been made using Wordpress block) hosted locally to another local host?

Who still needs to pay for plugins. Thank you

I have some questions. I don’t use Cpanel, to expensive for a nonprofit organization. I host my own site. Recently built a new server, Ubuntu 22.04lts. I have a backup of my word press site. I’m trying to figure. Out how to install Wordpress using aapanel. Or if I was going to install Wordpress directly from command line in the server. I did this 7 years ago. When you don’t install word press once a week you forget how. Any help appreciated.

After purchasing the All in one WP migration, I spent 15 hours uploading three times without success. My site is up and running after trying this manual technique once. Thank you so much!! You are amazing!

I just migrated a Divi site from GoDaddy to HostGator, worked perfectly thanks to this video. Well done!

Great video! Your explanations are so clear, Installation with plugins is all can talk about but this is a deeper technical stuff. A talented explanation!

after 5 years still being the best tutorial

Thank you very much ! :)

We used several auto transfer plug-ins and we end up with broken pages. We may have to do a manual transfer.

Mate thank you from the bottom of my heart <3

You saved me from tremendous upcoming stress :P

Cool

I have 250 tables when I check all do you think it grab all of them on the other pages or just 1st page

Hey Nice video

big thanks to your video move 4 site with you indication,

Thank you so much. All the other tutorials which used plugins either didn't work or just wanted money.