Comments on: How to Move A Small WordPress Site Via the Import/Export Tool

By: Dave in Belize

Dave in Belize — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:20:47 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Do you know if this will still work if I change servers AND domains? It is a very small wordpress site ie: custom theme with custom front page and only 6 other pages.
According to the Codex it seems neccessary to hunt down all absolute domain path references and change them……..? (a friggin nightmare)

By: Frisco Colorado

Frisco Colorado — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:45:28 +0000

I’ve also used the import/export feature to upgrade some painfully out of date WordPress installations. These were pre WP 2.5 installs that almost definitely would have thrown endless PHP errors if I tried to do a standard upgrade.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:18:11 +0000

I’ve just recently discovered a free plugin called Duplicator that I used to clone my WordPress blog onto my laptop. It copies everything: the database, template files, posts, images, etc. It’s available in the WordPress.org plugin directory (though it’s unavailable today because of the internet blackout).

By: Web Marketing Tips

Web Marketing Tips — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:05:42 +0000

@ jorge jacobo

So according to you which is the best way to move your site from one server to another.

Can you please share your experience with us at here.

By: Fren Dee Bee

Fren Dee Bee — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:37:26 +0000

I’m glad to see this manual of transfering a WordPress site on DailyBlogTips. I’m planning to transfer my other blog from a very slow web host to a new one. Haven’t tried this import/export feature yet, I’ll try this one, I hope I won’t screw any files.

By: Edgar

Edgar — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:55:10 +0000

I sell alot of sites on Flippa and I use the above method as well and it make things so much easier.

you can just email the import file to the buyer and the images folder you uploaded and thats it…

I dont like to transfer my database info because, the database contains your login and your current password which the seller can hack your other sites..

that has happen to me… thats why I like this method better.

edgar

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:47:04 +0000

@Sean M Kelly, what exactly corrupted the blog? Because the steps I recommend you to take don’t touch anything of your current blog, so there’s no way to mess anything up.

One point the could not work is when using the “import” function on the new server. The size of your XML file containing the posts could be larger than what your hosting company allows for upload. In this you need to contact them asking them to increase the limit a bit.

By: Sean M Kelly

Sean M Kelly — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:45:31 +0000

Good tips! Thanks. My wp blog seems to have got corrupted somehow and I can’t login to my dashboard. The website still displays ok but just cant login. Any ideas on what I can do to sort it?

This is the message that comes up:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /data/9/0/30/66/519066/user/529735/htdocs/blogjul07/wp-admin/includes/media.php on line 1560

Thanks
Sean

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:46:47 +0000

Thank you for posting this, I’ve been searching for an article that explains how to move my wordpress site- and I’ve finally found one!

By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:31:22 +0000

I will be keeping an eye out for the post about moving large blogs as I have a couple that I will be moving sometime this year and I’ll find it very helpful. 🙂

By: Casper

Casper — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:01:43 +0000

I have allso moved a wordpress this way. Only thing you have to remember is, that images dont allways gets exported.

For my site i ended up having a dummy domain online and then moving the whole thing to the correct domain with images from the dummy. But ok i had like 600 posts, and 1000 images.

By: jorge jacobo

jorge jacobo — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:49:39 +0000

I had doubts if this was a reliable way, I did the exact thing once, then I thought, is this the right way?

My site had like 70 posts and had no traffic. The only thing i didn’t do was the permalink structure.

Somehow I managed to transfer my site. I learned a lot while doing it!