How to Migrate Your Website With All-In-One WP Migration

This document will walk you through how to migrate your website from a local install to a live server, or from one server to another, using the All-In-I WP Migration plugin as our case tool. Substantially though, regardless of where you are moving a site from and to, and which method you lot are using, the process will remain the same. Effectively, we are taking a backup of one site in one place, and restoring that fill-in in some other identify. Read on for a footstep past stride walkthrough of migrating you Avada site with All-In-1 WP Migration.

Please Notation. We are using the free version  of All-In-One WP Migration for this instance, which has both site size, and destination, limitations. Please see the ServMask site for their paid extensions, including the popular Multisite Extension.

Overview

Installing The Plugin

All-in-I WP Migration is available in the WordPress repository. This ways it can be installed and activated directly from WordPress. Navigate to the Plugins > Add Plugin page and search for 'All-In-1 WP Migration'. When it shows on the page, you just demand to click Install, and and so when that is finished, y'all volition demand to click Activate. The plugin is now installed, and can be accessed from the WordPress Main Menu.

Export The Site

All-in-1 WP Migration does not have any settings, and takes a very streamlined approach to the chore of migrating your site. Any options are included in the export and import workflow. The reason for this, and why this procedure is quite different to the i outlined in How to Migrate Your Website With Duplicator, is that the All-In-One WP Migration plugin only exports your site'south contents and database, and not WordPress itself. As such, to import the site on the new location, WordPress must be already installed. Allow's come across how it all works.

To brainstorm with it, simply click on the All-in-One WP Migration link on the WordPress Dashboard menu. The start affair you meet is a very streamlined page, with a large 'Consign To' button at the bottom. It is in fact as simple as clicking on this push to proceed. There are boosted options, and there is a Find and Supersede part at the superlative if needed, simply most users can but click Export To, and continue the process.

All-In-One WP Migration > Export Site

The available options are exclusion options, and some are purely for troubleshooting purposes. Nearly users volition non need, or desire, to exclude any of their site'due south content, but it'due south worth having a look to run across if whatsoever of the options utilize to your site.

All-In-One WP Migration > Export Site - Options

Once you have chosen whatever options, the side by side thing to exercise is to click the 'Export To' push button. A dropdown appears with apparent choices of where to Export your file to. With the complimentary version of All-In-1 WP Migration, just the File option is bachelor. All other options are individual extensions that you can purchase. For our example, we are simply going to export to a file.

The plugin then prepares the Export file. This may have some time, depending on the size of your site. At the finish of the process, y'all will see a 'Download' button. The file is also stored in the Backups department found at All-In-1 WP Migrations > Backups. Click on the Download push button to download the Export file to your local calculator. Once more, this may take some time, depending on the size of the file and your Net speed.

In one case y'all have your file, you are ready to movement on to the Import Process. This takes place on your new server.

All-In-One WP Migration > Export Progress
All-In-One WP Migration > Download File
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Import The Site

Now you have your Consign file, it's time to complete the migration of your site. Regardless of whether you are moving the site from a local production site to a new server, or from ane host to another, the procedure is exactly the same.

The starting signal for importing the site is a fresh install of WordPress on your destination location. If it's a make new site, and then all you need to do is organise the hosting and domain proper noun, and install WordPress in your new account. If you are moving a site from one host to some other, and yous would like to avoid downtime, there are a few extra steps you need to take. In that location are many ways to exercise this, depending on your hosting, but basically, you desire to be able to log in to your new account and import the site before changing nameservers. My favorite way of doing this is to go the IP address of the new business relationship and use the hosts file on my computer to temporarily map the IP to the domain name, so I can complete the import and only then, when the site has been migrated, change nameservers. This video goes over the procedure.

OK, then when you have a fresh copy of WordPress installed on your destination location, you then demand to install the All-In-1 WP migration plugin again. In one case you lot accept done that, head over to Import. The dialog yous encounter is as equally simple as the Export one. The but thing to annotation here is that you might have a low Maximum Upload File Size, as shown in the image below, depending on your hosting. There are good instructions on the Servmask website for how to set up this.

All-In-One WP Migration Import > Upload

You tin see in this 2d paradigm, that I have increased the file upload size.

All-In-One WP Migration Import > Upload Fixed
Of import Notation: All-In-One WP Migration has a congenital in limit of 512MB for uploading files. To overcome this for larger sites, the Unlimited Extension must be purchased.

Once yous are fix to upload just click on the 'Import From' button and navigate to the file you downloaded earlier.

All-In-One WP Migration Import > Choose File

One time yous have chose your file, the plugin gets to work preparing the upload. You will see a flurry of activity about Preparing the upload and checking extensions compatibility etc, then y'all volition be presented with a  screen that lets yous know that by continuing on from this bespeak, files and databases volition exist overwritten. Click Proceed to import your site, or Close to abort at this bespeak. If yous proceed, the import begins. This might take a while, depending on how big your site is, and the speed of your host.

All-In-One WP Migration Import > Processing
All-In-One WP Migration Import > Final Warning
All-In-One WP Migration Import > Restoring

When the upload is consummate, you lot are presented with a  final screen, to let y'all know that your data has been successfully imported. The final matter to do, as the screen indicates, is to log in to the new site (with the old site'due south credentials) and salvage the Permalinks twice. This completes the process, and your site has now been migrated.

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