Best WordPress Migration Plugins to Move Your Website:-At many stages you need to migrate your WordPress website. Be it for faster hosting services or for any other reason. No matter what the reason is you must need to know how to do it. If your website is in WordPress platform you can migrate it without any lose. Migration plugins help you to do this easily. Here we describe some best WordPress migration plugins that get the job completed for you in very short time.
5 Best WordPress Migration Plugins:
A good site migration mechanism needs to complete this process smoothly. Some hosting service provider offer site migration service for free or at a specific cost. While some hosting providers don’t have such services. So there are some chances when you need to do this on your own. But the great thing is that it isn’t so difficult. Here are some best plugins that resolves your migration issue and do it smoothly.
- Duplicator:– This is a powerful WordPress plugin that you can use to move your site. Using this plugin you can migrate your site from local host to web server and vice versa. Install this plugin on your website and export whole website including WordPress CMS. Your will receive an installer.php file and site archive. Move these two elements on your target server’s public HTML root directory and browse. On the coming page, you get on screen instructions and steps to setup the site on new location. Don’t forget to update the final url. Duplicator is most trusted and widely used plugin these days.
Features:
- Clone or migrate a website
- Pull down a live site to local host for development
- Clone a live site to staging area or vice versa
- Backup WordPress site or parts of site manually
- Bundle up entire site for easy reuse or distribution.
Free version of duplicator is available on WordPress.org repository for above features.
- All-in-one migration:- This plugin exports WordPress site including database, plugins, media files and themes easily. You can upload your site to desired location with drag & drop functionality. In All-in-one migration plugin there is a feature to apply an unlimited number of find & replace operations on database during export process. This plugin will also fix any serialization issues that occurs during find & replace operations.
Features:
- Convenience Backups
- Ultra-Fast export operation
- Drag and drop import system
- Tested on all major OSes
Free version of this plugin supports only 512 MB upload size. If site package is more than quota, you need to buy more extensions to this plugin. There are various premium extensions for additional features.
- Easy WordPress Migration: Migrate Guru:- this is super fast and easy to use WordPress migration plugin. The plugin is considered to be the fastest plugins built to date. It is developed by blogVault. Migration guru access intelligent processes on its own sever leaving no risk to your site. This plugin rewrites urls, bypasses import-export scripts and handles serialized data automatically. Also it transfers WordPress sites without manual work, add-ons or additional tools.
Features:
- Truly one click migration
- Seamless multisite support
- Compatible with all hosts
- No overload on site
- Migrate any site irrespective of file size
- Tracking and progress alert
This is a absolutely free plugin.
- WP Migrate DB:- this plugin copies database from one WordPress install to another with a simple click. You can export database as MySQL data dump, do a search and replace for urls & paths. Also you can save the database to your computer as MySQL file. It focuses on database. So if you want to transfer database only then this plugin is for you. Also there are some limitations while transferring your entire site with it.
Features:
- Find & replace different data
- Backup, push and pull database
- Works tablewise
- Able to export database
- Filter post type
- Stores migration profiles
Wp migrate DB comes in both free & premium versions. Free version serves your work properly. For additional features you can get premium.
- WP Clone:- This is lightweight, fast and easy plugin for a WordPress site migration. It follows very simple technique. You need to install it on both site the source & the target site. Then create a package from source site. You will get a package link. Now go to fresh target site and open wp clone plugin that you’ve installed. Provide package link & restore it to target server.
However this plugin may not work on 10%- 20% sites, especially on larger ones. But if you just want to move your newly build website from localhost to web server, this plugin should work.