Wow, after many years of relying on migration plugins with one problem after another, I've learned how to move a site manually with your video. I really can't thank you enough!
This was an excellent and comprehensive instructions. And NOT ONE sales pitch for a masterclass. Am I still in UA-cam? Have I travelled back in time to a world before everyone was a guru?
I have used many plugins and methods out there (such as, all-in-one wp migration, Duplicator, Cloning ... etc) to migrate my websites, large ones as well as small, from different hosts and within the same host but never they gave intended results. All those plugins have been created for few specific cases and can not be used for other general scenarios. This manual method as Josh explains is the best and trouble free method that can be used in general. I recommend this method to be used if you don't want to waste time and disappointment. Thank you Josh.
Hey Josh, a 1,000 thank yous and tonnes of gratitude for this video. I spent 4.5 hours yesterday trying to migrate a 1,000 page site with the all-in-one wp migration tool. I reduced the w.press file down from 525MB, to 497MB, to 470MB, to 455MB and none of them worked. They all hung! I had such a hard time yesterday that I had no faith that the paid version would even work. Losing money would pale next to the amount of time that would be lost raising their support across time zones etc etc. Losing more time, not migrating the site and not learning anything was the biggest cost I dreaded. Then this morning the first video UA-cam served me was Simplest way to transfer/migrate your WordPress website to another host in 7 mins and the second was yours: How to MANUALLY Migrate Your Wordpress Site. Talk about serendipity. Or the Google Chrome - UA-cam algorithm. Even though the first video is very good, I chose yours to work with because of all the step-by-step documentation and timestamps you provided (plus your site that I linked through too!). Long story short, I followed step by step, screenshotting all the steps I took to create a 78 page Google how-to-do-this doc with our-sites-on-our-servers document for my future reference and as training tool for a future team member. Everything went well until this step at 16:13 - Check new site. The browser showed a critical error alert where the site should have been. I got onto webhost support. They increased the memory limit to 128MB in the php.ini in the MultiPHP INI Editor panel and suddenly the site displayed. The only other unexpected step was the Velvet Blues Update URLs recommendation to back up the imported site before updating the URLS. Which I did follow. Apart from these two off-script variations, your step-by-step was perfect. I got a great result from the time invested. I got a great how-to-document out of it. I have broken through a barrier. Thank you for this video and this result. Consider me a future Cpanel course student. I will happily pay the tuition fee not only for that course but also for the help and education and sense of real achievement that following your video has given me. I am so pleased to know now how to manually migrate a wordpress site from one domain to another (or one subdomain to another). Even more pleased to have achieved this first with a big site. This smile is going to hang around for quite a while. :) :) Thank you again Josh.
@@JoshHallco Unfortunately the story does not have a good end. My WP-admin login worked after the migration because I did some surface editing: logo etc. Then today wp-admin login displayed just anchor text links (that click through to 403 pages) instead of the normal dashboard. I got onto webhost support whose troubleshooting led them to escalating a ticket to clone the site again. So in 24-48 hours we'll see how that goes. I have no idea what happened.
Awesome to hear, David! I go into database, file manager, domain/email settings and more in even more detail in my cPanel course if interested in more! joshhall.co/product/joshs-cpanel-course
I'm just going to go ahead and leave what I think is my FIRST UA-cam comment ever while my WP-Content is uploading and say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for this video and saving me time, money, and headache learning this elsewhere. Videos like this on the public domain are what make me believe in the internet. God bless.
Josh your tutorial has helped me on a whole new level. The level of clarity I have achieved through your easy-to-follow steps is unbelievable. Kudos to you!!
Wow, Bravo Sir, I have been a hobbyist for 10 years and this is the first I was able to successfully transfer a site to new hosting with no issues. I was able to move 10 before the first one finished with the old method that I knew through FTP upload. Thank you for the video.
I was having so much trouble with upload limits from my web host, and this manual upload just totally bypassed all of that. All I needed was to upload only the essentials. Absolute godsend Josh, thank you so much!
After trying the All-in-one-Migration and hitting the wall because of the file size upload limit.. I tried your method and it worked! Excellent presentation of step by step for dummies. Thank You!
Hi Josh, Just letting you know I tried to migrate my site and watched 4 diff youtube videos before I found yours! None of the others worked but yours did! You're amazing!
I'm a complete noob to Wordpress and was absolutely dreading my site migration, but this was a walk in the park! Thanks so much, Josh! Amazingly detailed and valuable tut 🙌🙌🙌
Josh Thanks a ton for this tutorial. I was having a hard time migrating a website, used duplicator, Aio, Wivid etc. but no use. I just followed your steps in tutorial and finally got the migration done. I am really grateful for this detailed tutorial and appreciate your efforts for making this video. PS. THIS METHOD STILL WORKS IN 2022.
Thank you veeery much !!! You saved my life. It worked and i could transfer my websites after following your guideline . When thinking, i have known a reliable way to transfer sites without relying on other plugins, I am sooo happy. I m sooo glad that I could find your this tutorial youtube video accidentally and finally . Plzzz load more tutorials!!!
Nice & works like a charm! I did ran into an issue due to WordPress versions being different: the old site still was 4.8.21 while the new had already 6.0.3. The problem's root cause is that with different WP version, the database structure might be different as well. Solved it by reinstalling WP on the new site but with a WP version that was close (4.8.3) to the version of the orginal site. I did not choose to upgrade the WP version on the old site as it also contained a lot of out-dated plugins. Kinda bad management of the previous administrator. After migration, I took a full backup of the site (I recommend the BACKWPUP plugin) for safety and then updated WP and the outdated plugins. New fresh and up2dated and secure site and a happy customer as a result.
May God bless you for proving this abundance of knowledge free of charge. My heart melts when I land on a channel where the explainer explains everything in detail and takes me step by step through all that I should do. It worked perfectly well. Now I have my site up and I'm so so happy. Thank you so much Josh!
HUGE thank you Josh for taking an intimidating task and breaking it down with expert step by step instructions in human speak. I almost can't believe I got it right the first time!
Thank you so very much for your help, I have been back and forth with my hosting account for a month trying to get my websites back up and you showed me how in 20 mins. You are the best!!!!
Thanks Taip :) Yeah nothing better than a basic, foundational and timeless understanding of cPanel, file structure, databases, etc! No pressure but if you ever want to take your knowledge with all of that to the next level, I have my cPanel course now: joshhall.co/product/joshs-cpanel-course If interested at any point, contact me and I'll send a promo your way :)
Thank you very much Josh! I've been struggling on transferring the files and have used a lot of duplicating tools but to no avail. Your step-by-step tutorial really did work, you literally saved my job. Thank you very much!
Dear Josh, with this tutorial I have learned more than in all the years before regarding content and database. Now, it seems so easy - without all that bs with plugins - I am just so happy. Thank you very much!
I wish I could like a comment more than once :) This the reason I created this tutorial because I felt the same way for so many years! I'm a simple guy so I try to explain things as simple as possible. Database stuff can certainly be confusing. S glad this helped you out!
Your tutorial is so good, you make me feel like I actually know what I'm doing. You just saved me $75! I have to subscribe just as a matter of principal.
Josh, you are the best! I was trying hard to migrate a site with the help of plugins, but the site was too huge. Then, I decided to do a manual migration, and your video saved my life. I haven't commented on any UA-cam videos before. Your video forced me to say Thanks to you. I'm so grateful for this video.
Not only is this the still relevant in 2021. This has been the most helpful tutorial on migration that I have run across and I've seen several. Excellent tutorial. You've earned another subscriber!
Hi Josh, Just want to thank you for all the amazing tutorials you're putting up. You're very clear and concise in your explanation and it makes it really easy to follow. Always look forward to what you're going to share every week. Keep them coming! Imran
Thanks a lot for this awesome tutorial. I just want to know, is this method also applicable in the case if we want to change only hosting company and not domain name?
This is an amazingly helpful tutorial. I could not even find anything close to this useful on any reputable host companies sites. It works in 2021 too. The clean up at the end is unnecessary if you do not change the site name too. Please do an updated version so we never lose this online!
I have no words to thank you as you deserve. This issues has suffered me almost 4-5 months untill I found your video and solved my problem within 1 hours. You just awesome bro. 🤘😎💙💙
Ive used this video about 4-5 times in the last 3 years and it literally is the only way I know that works to actually migrate a wordpress site, so thank you so much for the video!
NOTE: I had not moved across/created a .htaccess file and it was causing errors. Ser, your video is brilliant. honestly. it is clear, descriptive and you are easy to understand. everything about it was great. But when i did my ftp migration the homepage worked alright but the other links from that page DID NOT WORK. i knew that the issue was NOT with you because of how clear you were. So i had to call me hosting provider and they told me what the issue was. i did not have a .htaccess file moved accross. infact, i did not have one created at all on the "new site" that i was working on. my tech support said immediately "oh you are missing the htacess file" when i told him what the issue was. Thanks again for the great vid
You had saved my day. Almost a month of thinking different option for migration, yours is very simple, straight forward and easy to understand. Thanks a lot.
I have spent several days migrating my website. With thousands of 500 and 404 errors, I am finally getting to the best video that will lead me to success. Thanks a lot Josh!
For 3 days in a row I tried with several options to accomplish this, my website was bigger that 500 mb, and this was my option but...it took me a whole day to make it work (migrated and modified everything at least 8 times) to discover at then that: If you have a SSL certificate enabled in your old domain, YOU MUST HAVE ONE PREVIOUSLY ENABLED IN THE NEW DOMAIN, otherwise it doesn´t work. Josh by the way, you´re awesome! thanks for this tutorial!
Thanks Josh, I can confirm this works in 2023 with HostGator. HostGator advertises they will migrate sites for you, but fails to mention or at least not made obvious there is a cap on how many files they can migrate. Luckily I found your video, watched it all the way through once, then followed along while migrating. Made it through with minimal errors. Thanks so much, we are live!!!
I moved my website to a different server in the same host probably in under 15 minutes, watching this video... And everything seems to work fine. Thanks a lot!
You saved me on this one!! Thank you so much. This was the most in-depth tutorial that actually worked! I had accidentally moved over a domain without exporting wordpress files and I thought I was about to have to redo the entire site. THANK YOU.
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!
Josh, thank you so so much for such a useful video. It is unbelievable not a single hosting provider can put such helpful information in an organized and easy way. WORKS!
ha right? I went years being so confused and once I finally got an understanding, I felt like there was the need for a video that summed it up in 20min. Glad it helped!
I know I can easily get solution on UA-cam but not knowing it's this easy. Have never comment on any watched videos before, it's my first time and it's because it is amazing. You are genius bro. Though have not test it but believe it's gonna work.
you are the sal khan on wordpress. thank you so much. you do not skip or assume any details. you are clear and consice, you explain everything. Very very good. please keep up the good work and teh videos coming! i tried everything, all in one wp, dilutor or whatever it is, this is the only system i could understand and implement
I migrated my site to a different hosting provider without a full backup just half. Still had acces to the old hosting database etc, you saved my life. Thank you
This tutorial has saved me so much money moving my sites from Bluehost over to SiteGround. There is a $30 fee per site to have SiteGround do it, but this tutorial has saved me upwards of $300. Thanks so much!
Love it! That is the absolute best feedback for me to hear, Will. Thanks so much for letting me know. And now you have a serious $$$ saving technique that you'll be able to use over and over again when transferring sites. Cheers!
Hi Josh, for the last thing, "Changing URLS by the plugin" , we can just have changed another path in wp-options i.e wp-upload_path URL, so change the site URL, change the Home URL & lasty change the upload path for all attachments. Thanks for the tutorial
Thank you so much for all the detailed information. I couldn't log in to my wp-admin after the site transfer and it was because I was missing the plugin you mentioned to change the URL's. Awesome! Josh, you are a life saver!
So much better explained that the other videos that assume we know what they are talking about. The other are utterly worthless - this was was perfectly done
Got to 14:50 and realized i need to stop the video abruptly and like and subscribe right away. Great job on explaining things! Databases can be a pain to understand. I can see clearly now the rain is gone.
Phucking awesome Josh!! All other tutorials focus of high level plugin operation and not how to do it at file level! Thanks so much for thorough explanation! :D
This saved me! I kept trying to migrate a site from one domain to another with various plugins and they would get stuck and never complete. This worked perfectly! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this tutorial - man saved me hours of work setting up our website on a new domain. I'm still learning about creating and updating websites and you have taught me so much in the last 30mins. Thanks a million.
I love you :D I needed to migrate my website. Although I took all the necessary backups, I encountered an error in all installations on my new server until I watched your video.
Extremely extremely helpful - I had one issue but all I had to do was clear the site cache; I am beyond impressed you are a true lifesaver and an expert - my gratitude for all the help you are just a badass plain and simple
I spend two days trying all sorts of site migration. I am really glad I came across your channel. I am finally able to migrate my sites without any issues. Keep up man!
You are right! It still works in 2024. I was trying various migration or backup plug-ins to make a staging or development version on my local machine running XAMPP. Alot have failed. Your method works! B4 this I was watching another youtuber about how to manually migrate but somehow it was confusing to me. Your video made it easy for me to understand. Thanks
I've been trying to migrate my website manually for the last 3 days and was close to getting a depression 🤣 I actually started my last attempt on doing it myself with this video and it finally worked out. Thank you so much for this super straightforward tutorial!
Heck yeah @CariOG glad to hear it finally worked! The most devastating points in my journey as a web designer were related to website migrations or email blow ups so I'm glad to hear this one prevented going to a dark place! ha
Awesome...As I have been using GoDaddy, I couldn't find the "home" option to edit the URL. But then I found that there are more then one page in that option section. So I clicked "next", and there was "home" option. There you can edit the home URL. And now my website migration is successfully completed. Thanks to Josh. :)
AIOWPM was not working even with the "unlimited" extension... I remembered watching this some years ago so I came back and followed along. Boom! Easy peasy, Josh, you're a master. Thanks so much.
Just what I needed. Was having trouble because both the All-in-One WP Migration and the Duplicator plugins were not working even after going through several recommendations to fix the problems. Thank you!
Thought I was the only one facing this issue, well I ended up migrating mine using support from Techcyber, immediately we spoke on 12012979269 they completely migrated everything with ease
Thanks Josh. By far the easiest and most thorough tutorial on migrating a WP site I've seen. I wanted to try it manually, before using a plugin, so I understood the process. I think I will continue to migrate all sites in the future using this method. Also, thanks for the worksheet. I copied it to Evernotes with checkboxes and a link to this tutorial.
This process works 100%! I've used this steps in migrating 15+ small WP sites. Though plugins make our lives easier, it still counts to know how to do things manually. Thanks for this manual Josh!
This method works perfectly, all everyone has to do is be patience, go slowly step by step and that's all. No plugin needed. Thanks Josh, successful migration. I did not use the plugin because I used different hosting but same domain name, again thank your.
Wow, after many years of relying on migration plugins with one problem after another, I've learned how to move a site manually with your video. I really can't thank you enough!
This was an excellent and comprehensive instructions. And NOT ONE sales pitch for a masterclass. Am I still in UA-cam? Have I travelled back in time to a world before everyone was a guru?
Lmao
Oh btw if you wanna scale your webdev and grow your business to the next level... I have a masterclass ;) lolol
I have used many plugins and methods out there (such as, all-in-one wp migration, Duplicator, Cloning ... etc) to migrate my websites, large ones as well as small, from different hosts and within the same host but never they gave intended results. All those plugins have been created for few specific cases and can not be used for other general scenarios. This manual method as Josh explains is the best and trouble free method that can be used in general. I recommend this method to be used if you don't want to waste time and disappointment. Thank you Josh.
Well said, Edward. Thanks for the comment!
Hey Josh, a 1,000 thank yous and tonnes of gratitude for this video. I spent 4.5 hours yesterday trying to migrate a 1,000 page site with the all-in-one wp migration tool. I reduced the w.press file down from 525MB, to 497MB, to 470MB, to 455MB and none of them worked. They all hung!
I had such a hard time yesterday that I had no faith that the paid version would even work. Losing money would pale next to the amount of time that would be lost raising their support across time zones etc etc. Losing more time, not migrating the site and not learning anything was the biggest cost I dreaded.
Then this morning the first video UA-cam served me was Simplest way to transfer/migrate your WordPress website to another host in 7 mins and the second was yours: How to MANUALLY Migrate Your Wordpress Site.
Talk about serendipity. Or the Google Chrome - UA-cam algorithm.
Even though the first video is very good, I chose yours to work with because of all the step-by-step documentation and timestamps you provided (plus your site that I linked through too!).
Long story short, I followed step by step, screenshotting all the steps I took to create a 78 page Google how-to-do-this doc with our-sites-on-our-servers document for my future reference and as training tool for a future team member.
Everything went well until this step at 16:13 - Check new site. The browser showed a critical error alert where the site should have been. I got onto webhost support. They increased the memory limit to 128MB in the php.ini in the MultiPHP INI Editor panel and suddenly the site displayed.
The only other unexpected step was the Velvet Blues Update URLs recommendation to back up the imported site before updating the URLS. Which I did follow.
Apart from these two off-script variations, your step-by-step was perfect. I got a great result from the time invested. I got a great how-to-document out of it. I have broken through a barrier.
Thank you for this video and this result.
Consider me a future Cpanel course student. I will happily pay the tuition fee not only for that course but also for the help and education and sense of real achievement that following your video has given me.
I am so pleased to know now how to manually migrate a wordpress site from one domain to another (or one subdomain to another). Even more pleased to have achieved this first with a big site. This smile is going to hang around for quite a while. :) :) Thank you again Josh.
Yeah big sites and migration tools RARELY play nicely together. Knowing how to do it manually is key. So glad to hear it helped!
@@JoshHallco Unfortunately the story does not have a good end. My WP-admin login worked after the migration because I did some surface editing: logo etc. Then today wp-admin login displayed just anchor text links (that click through to 403 pages) instead of the normal dashboard. I got onto webhost support whose troubleshooting led them to escalating a ticket to clone the site again. So in 24-48 hours we'll see how that goes. I have no idea what happened.
very helpful. been awake for 12 hours finding the right tutorial to transfer my old website to the new one. thank you for this. this is amazing!
After 5 years, successfully migrated a website without usng any plugin after watching this video, you have earned a subscriber. God bless.:)
This is one of the most valuable tutorials for WordPress ever. It's saved me heaps of cash and made me feel comfortable with databases.
Awesome to hear, David! I go into database, file manager, domain/email settings and more in even more detail in my cPanel course if interested in more! joshhall.co/product/joshs-cpanel-course
Strongly agree...
I'm just going to go ahead and leave what I think is my FIRST UA-cam comment ever while my WP-Content is uploading and say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for this video and saving me time, money, and headache learning this elsewhere. Videos like this on the public domain are what make me believe in the internet. God bless.
Thanks for the awesome feedback, Cameron! Glad to hear this one helped you out :)
Josh your tutorial has helped me on a whole new level. The level of clarity I have achieved through your easy-to-follow steps is unbelievable. Kudos to you!!
Thanks for the note, Shahab! Awesome to hear.
Wow, Bravo Sir, I have been a hobbyist for 10 years and this is the first I was able to successfully transfer a site to new hosting with no issues. I was able to move 10 before the first one finished with the old method that I knew through FTP upload. Thank you for the video.
I was having so much trouble with upload limits from my web host, and this manual upload just totally bypassed all of that. All I needed was to upload only the essentials. Absolute godsend Josh, thank you so much!
Short Cut : How To Increase Max File Size In WP All In One Migration | 100% Working | 2020 ua-cam.com/video/PzlaDAOi0nY/v-deo.html
Finally, this video is the best answer to a huge issue concerning website migration
After trying the All-in-one-Migration and hitting the wall because of the file size upload limit.. I tried your method and it worked! Excellent presentation of step by step for dummies.
Thank You!
Hi Josh,
Just letting you know I tried to migrate my site and watched 4 diff youtube videos before I found yours! None of the others worked but yours did! You're amazing!
Awesome to hear it worked for you, Kim Long!
I'm a complete noob to Wordpress and was absolutely dreading my site migration, but this was a walk in the park! Thanks so much, Josh! Amazingly detailed and valuable tut 🙌🙌🙌
Love it! Thanks for the comment :)
@@JoshHallco He is so frank and direct , I appreciate people that make Tuts Pratical, and easy to follow:)
Josh Thanks a ton for this tutorial. I was having a hard time migrating a website, used duplicator, Aio, Wivid etc. but no use. I just followed your steps in tutorial and finally got the migration done. I am really grateful for this detailed tutorial and appreciate your efforts for making this video.
PS. THIS METHOD STILL WORKS IN 2022.
Thank you veeery much !!! You saved my life. It worked and i could transfer my websites after following your guideline . When thinking, i have known a reliable way to transfer sites without relying on other plugins, I am sooo happy. I m sooo glad that I could find your this tutorial youtube video accidentally and finally . Plzzz load more tutorials!!!
Nice & works like a charm!
I did ran into an issue due to WordPress versions being different: the old site still was 4.8.21 while the new had already 6.0.3.
The problem's root cause is that with different WP version, the database structure might be different as well.
Solved it by reinstalling WP on the new site but with a WP version that was close (4.8.3) to the version of the orginal site.
I did not choose to upgrade the WP version on the old site as it also contained a lot of out-dated plugins. Kinda bad management of the previous administrator.
After migration, I took a full backup of the site (I recommend the BACKWPUP plugin) for safety and then updated WP and the outdated plugins.
New fresh and up2dated and secure site and a happy customer as a result.
This manual method Worked for me very well, Wordpress transfer plugins were not working for me... A big thank you to you...👍
Finally a tutoral that works!! Thank you so much!
May God bless you for proving this abundance of knowledge free of charge. My heart melts when I land on a channel where the explainer explains everything in detail and takes me step by step through all that I should do. It worked perfectly well. Now I have my site up and I'm so so happy. Thank you so much Josh!
It's true what the title said, 2024 the tricks still work. Thanks for the help Josh!
HUGE thank you Josh for taking an intimidating task and breaking it down with expert step by step instructions in human speak. I almost can't believe I got it right the first time!
Great to hear, Bradley!
Thank you so very much for your help, I have been back and forth with my hosting account for a month trying to get my websites back up and you showed me how in 20 mins. You are the best!!!!
2020 and still rescuing people! Thank you so much. After 8 failed attempts, this was the instruction I should have seen first :)
Thanks Taip :) Yeah nothing better than a basic, foundational and timeless understanding of cPanel, file structure, databases, etc! No pressure but if you ever want to take your knowledge with all of that to the next level, I have my cPanel course now: joshhall.co/product/joshs-cpanel-course
If interested at any point, contact me and I'll send a promo your way :)
I refer back to this video every time a do a Wordpress transfer. Great video.
It worked great, I migrated my 1.4GB site from a shared hosting plan to a VPS and everything works perfectly!
Awesome!!! Yeah moving that site with a plugin would've likely had a timeout or other transfer issues.
Thank you so much. All the other tutorials which used plugins either didn't work or just wanted money.
Thank you very much Josh! I've been struggling on transferring the files and have used a lot of duplicating tools but to no avail.
Your step-by-step tutorial really did work, you literally saved my job.
Thank you very much!
Dear Josh, with this tutorial I have learned more than in all the years before regarding content and database. Now, it seems so easy - without all that bs with plugins - I am just so happy. Thank you very much!
I wish I could like a comment more than once :) This the reason I created this tutorial because I felt the same way for so many years! I'm a simple guy so I try to explain things as simple as possible. Database stuff can certainly be confusing. S glad this helped you out!
Your tutorial is so good, you make me feel like I actually know what I'm doing. You just saved me $75! I have to subscribe just as a matter of principal.
Josh, you are the best!
I was trying hard to migrate a site with the help of plugins, but the site was too huge. Then, I decided to do a manual migration, and your video saved my life. I haven't commented on any UA-cam videos before. Your video forced me to say Thanks to you. I'm so grateful for this video.
I tried several plugins that didn't work for me. This worked. Thank you!
Not only is this the still relevant in 2021. This has been the most helpful tutorial on migration that I have run across and I've seen several. Excellent tutorial. You've earned another subscriber!
Much appreciated and glad to hear it helped, Reece!!
Hi Josh,
Just want to thank you for all the amazing tutorials you're putting up. You're very clear and concise in your explanation and it makes it really easy to follow. Always look forward to what you're going to share every week. Keep them coming!
Imran
Thanks for that awesome feedback, Imran! It's great to hear and much appreciated.
Agreed 100%!
You are radical, subbed and alerted to all posts.
Awesome, Eric :) More on the way!
Thanks a lot for this awesome tutorial. I just want to know, is this method also applicable in the case if we want to change only hosting company and not domain name?
This is the only tutorial that I came across that actually helped from beginning to end in a clear, simple way. Thanks so much!
Tried many videos on the internet and only through your video I could do the successful transfer. Thanks a billion.
This is an amazingly helpful tutorial. I could not even find anything close to this useful on any reputable host companies sites. It works in 2021 too. The clean up at the end is unnecessary if you do not change the site name too. Please do an updated version so we never lose this online!
I'll do an updated version eventually if need be but luckily, the beauty of this tutorial is I do things the EXACT same way almost 4 years later :)
This video is by far the BEST. I was able to manually move my WP site to another ISP. It worked perfectly.
Awesome to hear, Sherry!
Thank you so much, man. You saved my life, still this method working in 2020. You earned one subscriber.
second time I needed this tutorial! :)) Great work man... thx a lot for it.
It's a bookmarker for sure! I even have to go back to it from time to time 😂
Best tutorial for wordpress migration. Other websites make it super complicated, you made it clear and easy. Thanks man.
Thanks Ricardo!
Still Working for Whole Life!!! Thanks, Josh!!! Updraft Plus also help:)
I have no words to thank you as you deserve. This issues has suffered me almost 4-5 months untill I found your video and solved my problem within 1 hours.
You just awesome bro. 🤘😎💙💙
Ive used this video about 4-5 times in the last 3 years and it literally is the only way I know that works to actually migrate a wordpress site, so thank you so much for the video!
@ziggamalay glad it keeps working for ya! Honored to be a bookmark on your browser 💪😬
This is the BEST video I have ever seen related to WordPress migration. Thanks Josh!
Thanks, Shuheng!
NOTE: I had not moved across/created a .htaccess file and it was causing errors.
Ser, your video is brilliant. honestly. it is clear, descriptive and you are easy to understand. everything about it was great. But when i did my ftp migration the homepage worked alright but the other links from that page DID NOT WORK. i knew that the issue was NOT with you because of how clear you were. So i had to call me hosting provider and they told me what the issue was. i did not have a .htaccess file moved accross. infact, i did not have one created at all on the "new site" that i was working on. my tech support said immediately "oh you are missing the htacess file" when i told him what the issue was.
Thanks again for the great vid
You had saved my day. Almost a month of thinking different option for migration, yours is very simple, straight forward and easy to understand. Thanks a lot.
I have spent several days migrating my website. With thousands of 500 and 404 errors, I am finally getting to the best video that will lead me to success. Thanks a lot Josh!
Hope this tutorial will be your last stop @Frederik!
For 3 days in a row I tried with several options to accomplish this, my website was bigger that 500 mb, and this was my option but...it took me a whole day to make it work (migrated and modified everything at least 8 times) to discover at then that: If you have a SSL certificate enabled in your old domain, YOU MUST HAVE ONE PREVIOUSLY ENABLED IN THE NEW DOMAIN, otherwise it doesn´t work.
Josh by the way, you´re awesome! thanks for this tutorial!
Thanks Josh, I can confirm this works in 2023 with HostGator. HostGator advertises they will migrate sites for you, but fails to mention or at least not made obvious there is a cap on how many files they can migrate. Luckily I found your video, watched it all the way through once, then followed along while migrating. Made it through with minimal errors. Thanks so much, we are live!!!
Great to know, Scott! Thank you and congrats on a successful migration 😬
I moved my website to a different server in the same host probably in under 15 minutes, watching this video... And everything seems to work fine. Thanks a lot!
Moved my site from Bluehost to HostGator using this video, thank you for creating it
OMG! It actually works! Massive Thanks to you Josh Hall. :)
You saved me on this one!! Thank you so much. This was the most in-depth tutorial that actually worked! I had accidentally moved over a domain without exporting wordpress files and I thought I was about to have to redo the entire site. THANK YOU.
Thanks for the feedback, Becky! Yep I did that same thing before I figured out this migration process so you're not alone :) So glad it helped!
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!
Great to hear this worked for you! Migration plugins are great...until they don't work. And every once in a while, manual is the way to go 💪
Josh, thank you so so much for such a useful video. It is unbelievable not a single hosting provider can put such helpful information in an organized and easy way. WORKS!
ha right? I went years being so confused and once I finally got an understanding, I felt like there was the need for a video that summed it up in 20min. Glad it helped!
I know I can easily get solution on UA-cam but not knowing it's this easy. Have never comment on any watched videos before, it's my first time and it's because it is amazing. You are genius bro. Though have not test it but believe it's gonna work.
Thanks for the comment! Much appreciate and hope it works out for ya.
you are the sal khan on wordpress. thank you so much. you do not skip or assume any details. you are clear and consice, you explain everything. Very very good. please keep up the good work and teh videos coming! i tried everything, all in one wp, dilutor or whatever it is, this is the only system i could understand and implement
I migrated my site to a different hosting provider without a full backup just half. Still had acces to the old hosting database etc, you saved my life. Thank you
Oh been there before! But unfortunately without this tutorial so I had some horrible experiences. Glad to help!
This tutorial has saved me so much money moving my sites from Bluehost over to SiteGround. There is a $30 fee per site to have SiteGround do it, but this tutorial has saved me upwards of $300. Thanks so much!
Love it! That is the absolute best feedback for me to hear, Will. Thanks so much for letting me know. And now you have a serious $$$ saving technique that you'll be able to use over and over again when transferring sites. Cheers!
Hi Josh, just went through your tutorial, still works well in 2021, love from Zambia. Brilliant stuff!!
Worked perfectly! Couldn't have done it without you. Thanks!
Success in my first attempt just because of you. Appriciate your effort! Thanks.
Hi Josh, for the last thing, "Changing URLS by the plugin" , we can just have changed another path in wp-options i.e wp-upload_path URL, so change the site URL, change the Home URL & lasty change the upload path for all attachments.
Thanks for the tutorial
Yeah that's a valid option as well. I sometimes like to use the plugin just to make it easier. But either way is fine!
this literally fixed my issues. A four year old video is still good to migrate in 2021. Thank you!
I love timeless solutions! Glad to hear it helped :)
Thank you so much for all the detailed information. I couldn't log in to my wp-admin after the site transfer and it was because I was missing the plugin you mentioned to change the URL's. Awesome! Josh, you are a life saver!
Glad it worked for you! Awesome to hear :)
So much better explained that the other videos that assume we know what they are talking about. The other are utterly worthless - this was was perfectly done
Thank you, Sean! Much appreciated feedback.
Years later... I'm right into this thing now.
I can't wait to impress my boss with a new skill.
Thanks a ton !
AWESOME! This knowledge and skillset definitely makes you more and more invaluable!
Got to 14:50 and realized i need to stop the video abruptly and like and subscribe right away. Great job on explaining things! Databases can be a pain to understand. I can see clearly now the rain is gone.
@Richard 🙏 amazing comment :)
Phucking awesome Josh!! All other tutorials focus of high level plugin operation and not how to do it at file level! Thanks so much for thorough explanation! :D
This saved me! I kept trying to migrate a site from one domain to another with various plugins and they would get stuck and never complete. This worked perfectly! Thank you so much!
So awesome to hear, Sandy! Thanks for the feedback :)
Thank you so much for this tutorial - man saved me hours of work setting up our website on a new domain. I'm still learning about creating and updating websites and you have taught me so much in the last 30mins. Thanks a million.
I love you :D
I needed to migrate my website. Although I took all the necessary backups, I encountered an error in all installations on my new server until I watched your video.
Best video years later. Thank you tremendously! Thank you
many WordPress migration plugins don't support large data and we need to buy the pro version. Manual migration saves the day thanks buddy !
FANTASTIC!!! Wow - you saved me so much time. Perfect instructions, great cadence with no BS! Thank you Thank you!!
Extremely extremely helpful - I had one issue but all I had to do was clear the site cache; I am beyond impressed you are a true lifesaver and an expert - my gratitude for all the help you are just a badass plain and simple
After, watching so many tutorials on migrating WP sites, this is the best so far. Thanks @Josh
I spend two days trying all sorts of site migration. I am really glad I came across your channel. I am finally able to migrate my sites without any issues. Keep up man!
God bless you man for making this detailed video. The biggest challenge was to come across your video!! Thank you.
You are right! It still works in 2024. I was trying various migration or backup plug-ins to make a staging or development version on my local machine running XAMPP. Alot have failed. Your method works! B4 this I was watching another youtuber about how to manually migrate but somehow it was confusing to me. Your video made it easy for me to understand. Thanks
Thank you Josh!! You turned what would have been stressing out for 24 hours to 3-4 hours :)
I've been trying to migrate my website manually for the last 3 days and was close to getting a depression 🤣 I actually started my last attempt on doing it myself with this video and it finally worked out. Thank you so much for this super straightforward tutorial!
Heck yeah @CariOG glad to hear it finally worked! The most devastating points in my journey as a web designer were related to website migrations or email blow ups so I'm glad to hear this one prevented going to a dark place! ha
I rarely (if never) comment on UA-cam videos but this was super helpful man.
Thanks Josh, I followed this video 4 years ago for the first time. I'm still following it whenever I stuck. Thank again.
Amazing 🤩 Nothing better than making a bookmark-worthy tut!
Thanks so much! I have successfully migrate the site! :)
That you told us to drink a coffee is most helpful too!! Love it!
Coffee for a successful migration and something stronger if you get a database error 😂 Congrats!
Awesome...As I have been using GoDaddy, I couldn't find the "home" option to edit the URL. But then I found that there are more then one page in that option section. So I clicked "next", and there was "home" option. There you can edit the home URL. And now my website migration is successfully completed. Thanks to Josh. :)
thank you! I was so worried I'd mess up my first migration from local to live, but you made this so easy.
CHAMP! This method is going straight into my back pocket. Worked for a major site transfer and saved me so much time and pain not needing to use FTP!
You really might not understand how helpful this video was to me, thank you very much!!!
AIOWPM was not working even with the "unlimited" extension... I remembered watching this some years ago so I came back and followed along. Boom! Easy peasy, Josh, you're a master.
Thanks so much.
I've never had such an easy time migrating a site. Thank you for the content !
I have never subscribed to anything but you explain it so well and it actually works. Thank you.
Just what I needed. Was having trouble because both the All-in-One WP Migration and the Duplicator plugins were not working even after going through several recommendations to fix the problems. Thank you!
Thought I was the only one facing this issue, well I ended up migrating mine using support from Techcyber, immediately we spoke on 12012979269 they completely migrated everything with ease
Thanks Josh. By far the easiest and most thorough tutorial on migrating a WP site I've seen. I wanted to try it manually, before using a plugin, so I understood the process. I think I will continue to migrate all sites in the future using this method. Also, thanks for the worksheet. I copied it to Evernotes with checkboxes and a link to this tutorial.
This process works 100%! I've used this steps in migrating 15+ small WP sites. Though plugins make our lives easier, it still counts to know how to do things manually. Thanks for this manual Josh!
@digitalgenerationspace wonderful to hear! So glad this continues to work for ya 🔥
This method works perfectly, all everyone has to do is be patience, go slowly step by step and that's all. No plugin needed. Thanks Josh, successful migration. I did not use the plugin because I used different hosting but same domain name, again thank your.
Couldn't have said it better myself! Thanks for the feedback and pumped it worked!
This video has literally saved me over US$10 000. Thank you so much Josh!