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user3677174
user3677174

Reputation: 45

Migrating Wordpress data from one website to another

Edit: Editing the original post to make my question simpler

My friend has a art website which is made in wordpress www..com. He hired a wordpress expert to redesign the website. The expert made the redesign at another location at www..com/ so both the websites are at different locations. I have to take the look of the redesigned site and the data of the mainwebsite, what approach should I take. The redsigned website should have all the plugins which are there in the mainwebsite. The redesigned website will replace the mainwebsite.

In short what approach should I take to migrate the new website design to actual website.

Any suggestions and inputs will be appreciated.

Update:

Thanks to everyone for taking time for answering the question, all of the answers are right in one way or the other, I would like to share this resource which I found extremely useful that I have bookmarked it for future reference, the author has explained all scenarios to migrate WordPress website. Hope you find it useful. The link to the website is http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/04/08/moving-wordpress-website/ I am no way related to this author or website, I am sharing this to help anyone who faces similar problem that I faced.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 106

Answers (3)

Pratik Talati
Pratik Talati

Reputation: 9

I would suggest following steps

  • Create a dummy site (beta or temp)
  • Move current mainsite there
  • Download theme from the redesigned site
  • Install it on the dummy site
  • Make sure everything is working perfectly as you want with the data you want
  • Move it live

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 0

pmandell
pmandell

Reputation: 4328

  1. Export the MySQL database from the current site.
  2. Restore the database backup on the new server.
  3. Copy the entire website to your machine via FTP.
  4. Edit wp-config.php to point to the new database. If you are changing domains, then see the link below.
  5. Copy the site files to the new hosting server via FTP.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

Upvotes: 1

Yamu
Yamu

Reputation: 1662

go to tools->import now select wordpress and install the plugin now you can export all your posts/pages and use the same tool to import that data to your new site

Upvotes: 0

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