Moving a WordPress installation, with the new cPanel tools?

rivermobster

• June 02, 2022 17:36

Hey all, I need to move a staging WP site I built from testsite.com to newsite.com (the names have been changed to protect the innocent). Can any of the fancy new cPanel tools be used to do this?? Or is one of these methods still the best option? Thanks in advance for the help! -Joe

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  andrew.n

  • June 03, 2022 06:56

  You can easily clone the site using WP Toolkit Deluxe to a new domain under the same account. WordPress Toolkit."

  From the list of installations, locate the one you'd like to clone.

  Click the button to expand the entry.

  Click "Clone."

  Select your options in the dialog that opens.

  Click "Start."

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  JoseDieguez

  • June 03, 2022 15:28

  zip files dump db move zip extract import db update url on wp_options on most cases, that's enough. i have performed hundreds of wp migrations without a plugin or tool. also, if you use softaculous, i know they have a tool for that too.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • June 03, 2022 15:46

  Like @andrew.n says, if both domains are under the same cPanel account, WordPress Toolkit is the way to go!

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  wbarrios

  • June 03, 2022 23:54

  Hi :cool:, Using wp cli is very easey if you have root access: check this link WP-CLI Commands | WordPress Developer Resources command:

  wp search-replace 'olddomain.com' 'newdomain.com' --skip-columns=guid --path=[path-wordpress-for-remplace] --allow-root

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  rivermobster

  • June 06, 2022 21:30

  I ended up using the Duplicator plug-in, and it worked like a charm. SUPER easy, with just the free version!!! I might upgrade to the paid version just so they know how happy I was with the function of it. Worked really well. :thumbsup:

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