Migrating Wordpress

Friday, October 31, 2008, 22:25
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I told you that I couldn’t access my blog. I did a decision.

I moved my blog http://WorkForProfit.net to another host. It wasn’t the easiest thing to do, but better to learn now than make mistakes later, when my blog will be much more complicated (with many posts, configured plugins and other stuff that can not be easily migrated).

You see, when you have only blog without many third party plugins, you can easily migrate wordpress by doing these steps:

export posts;
install new wordpress and configure it;
import posts.

That’s it, you have done your blog migration. Enjoy!

But my blog is not such a simple one (yeah, i haven’t much plugins installed, but those that are – have some configuration I do not want to do again). Also, I wanted to learn how to do Wordpress migration.

And I learned

Here is the quick step-by-step list:

create database backup with WP-db-backup (download from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/);
download entire Wordpress directory with all folders, sub folders and files from your host to your computer;
open ‘wp-config.php’ file from your wordpress install on your pc, and change the details for your new mysql connection;
change your blog full URL address to new destination URL address inside the database backup file (you can do it with replace function);
upload all your Wordpress files to your new host;
restore your Wordpress database with database backup file;
clear your cache and cookies.

If after all these steps you get a blank page when looking at your blog, check your theme. It can be that faulty theme file will cause this blank page. Try uploading the theme again.

That’s it. It helped me. It took me about 30 minutes to do (the biggest part of time took copying files from host to host).

Besides, if you need more information how to migrate Wordpress from host to host with different domain names, check http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/move/.