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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition
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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition

by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
February 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
608 pages
14h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 6

Backing Up, Packing Up, and Moving to a New Host

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Moving to WordPress from a different platform

Bullet Handling the database backup management

Bullet Backing up plugins and themes

Bullet Storing images and media files

Bullet Switching from your current hosting provider to a new one

As a WordPress website owner, you may need to move your site to a different home on the web, either to a new web host or to a different account on your current hosting account. Or maybe you’re an owner who needs to move your site right now.

This chapter covers the best way to migrate a site that exists within a different platform (such as Blogger, Movable Type, or TypePad) to WordPress. This chapter also takes you through how to back up your WordPress files, data, and content and then move them to a new hosting provider or a different domain.

Migrating Your Existing Site to WordPress

So you have a site on a different content management system (CMS) and want to move your site to WordPress? This chapter helps ...

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