<p>Tutorial on how to use the ezMigrate plugin: <a href="http://techblog.triptic.nl/moving-wordpress-using-the-ezmigrate-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Moving wordpress using the ezmigrate plugin</a></p>
<p>This plugin makes it easy to use and migrate your blog across different locations by detecting the current location and<br />
replacing all absolute paths on the fly.<br />
While there are ways to move your blog around by replacing the locations within the database manually or through scripts,<br />
they are very error prone and not very easy to do.<br />
Once enabled, this plugin doesn’t require you to do anything other than move your code and database to a new location<br />
when you want to. You can even access your blog through multiple urls at the same time when you need to.</p>
<p>This plugin is useful when:</p>
<ul>
<li>You want to make your blog available through different urls</li>
<li>You want to move your blog around</li>
<li>You’re staging the development of a blog with development, test and production environments which all have their own urls.</li>
<li>You’re using a Version Control System on a development server and developers have their own checkouts and urls to access a blog using a single database.</li>
</ul>
<p>The ezMigrate plugin does the following things:</p>
<ul>
<li>It determines the root url of the blog.</li>
<li>It replaces the options “siteurl”, “home”, “upload_path” and “fileupload_url” to the correct values, independent of their values stored inside the database.</li>
<li>When not already set in wp-config.php it sets the constants WP_CONTENT_URL, COOKIEPATH and SITECOOKIEPATH to the correct values.</li>
<li>When a post is saved into the database it replaces all root urls in href and src attributes with a placeholder. (This is also done for all posts when the plugin is activated).</li>
<li>When a post is retrieved from the database it replaces all placeholders with the current calculated root url. (This is also done for all posts when the plugin is deactivated).</li>
</ul>
<p>This way you don’t need to do anything when you migrate your blog and you can even make your blog accessible through multiple urls. It made life for me and the other developers at triptic a lot easier when we need to develop blogs using wordpress.</p>
<p>What this plugin doesn’t do (but might do in the future):</p>
<ul>
<li>Put a  in the header of your template. You can easily do this yourself by placing <base href=”<?php echo ezMigrate_getFullUrl();?>/” /> right after the <head> tag in the header.php file of your theme.</li>
<li>Replace urls outside of the four mentioned options or outside of href and src attributes in posts.</li>
<li>Make changes that might be necessary in the .htaccess file.</li>
</ul>
<p>Known plugins that won’t work on multiple locations without modification:</p>
<ul>
<li>cforms II, http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin<br />
won’t work because of absolute paths in abspath.php and js/cforms.js</li>
</ul>


ezMigrate

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<p>The Cloudways WordPress Migrator plugin automates WordPress migration(s) from any other hosting provider to Cloudways, the World’s Easiest Cloud Hosting Platform. The only requirement from your end is to provide the Cloudways SFTP details to the Plugin. Sit back and relax as the Migrator does the tedious work for you!</p>
<p>This tool saves valuable time for all kinds of website owners.</p>
<h4>Agencies</h4>
<p>•   You don’t need in-house technical experts to manage the complicated procedure of migrating your websites to the Cloudways Cloud Platform.<br />
•   Your website themes and plugins are preserved with utmost care.</p>
<h4>Developers</h4>
<p>•   Focus your efforts on time-critical projects, instead of spending hours on manual migrations.<br />
•   Database values are updated automatically, providing seamless transition to the Cloudways Platform.</p>
<h4>Ecommerce Merchants</h4>
<p>•   All product pages, themes, and customer records are moved to Cloudways easily.<br />
•   Minimum downtime to ensure your sales are affected as little as possible. There’s no faster way to move an ecommerce site!</p>
<h4>Small and Medium Enterprises</h4>
<p>•   The Cloudways WordPress Migrator is best for SMEs who don’t have the resources to employ specialists to handle their website migration.<br />
•   Search Engine Rank Positions (SERP) won’t fall. Your SEO links stays intact. So, there will be no adverse effects on SEO.<br />
•   It’s as easy as 1-2-3! The Cloudways Platform specializes in serving SMEs, as does this plugin.</p>
<h4>Bloggers</h4>
<p>•   Your widgets and customizations stay in one piece.<br />
•   All your ad codes, referral codes, and media files integrated into your posts will be transferred without any breakage.</p>
<h4>* Please Note *</h4>
<p>This plugin will only migrate your site to <a href="https://www.cloudways.com/en/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudways</a>. This will not migrate you to any other host.</p>


Cloudways WordPress Migrator

It's an amazing plugin and I am using it to clone my client's sites to staging mode but it there should be an option to exclude the folders inside wp-content because some people uses Updraft or other backup tools and there is no option to exclude them. There is no sense to transfer those folder to staging sites.

Great plugin with simplicity

This plugin works better than UpDraft Migrator, Shipper, AIO, etc! I think because it uses direct ftp access, but it has made moving all of my sites to Cloudways so easy!

Works great and better than most!

The easiest way to migrate your site to Cloudways

ezMigrate vs Cloudways WordPress Migrator