<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>


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<h4>WordPress Backup & Migration Plugin</h4>
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<blockquote>
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<h4>Smart WordPress Migration Wizard</h4>
<p>Duplicator’s smart <a href="https://duplicator.com/wordpress-migration-wizard/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=wordpress_migration_wizard&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress migration wizard</a> makes transferring your website to a new host or server effortless. No downtime, no data loss, and no code required.</p>
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<p>Migrating WordPress sites has never been easier with Duplicator’s <a href="https://duplicator.com/drag-drop-import-wordpress-tool/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=wordpress_migration_wizard&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">drag & drop import tools</a>. Quickly transfer your site to a new host or server in minutes, no code required.</p>
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<h4>Duplicator Pro Features</h4>
<p>Duplicator Pro takes Duplicator to the next level with features you’ll love, such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Drag and Drop installs – just drag the backup file to the destination site!</li>
<li>Scheduled backups</li>
<li>Cloud Storage to Dropbox Backups, Google Drive Backups, Microsoft OneDrive Backups, Amazon S3 Backups and FTP/SFTP Backups</li>
<li>Custom Backups and Cloning: want just plugins, or just themes, just the database? No problem!</li>
<li>A special 2-step streamlined installer mode for mega-fast installs</li>
<li>Recovery Points added for very fast emergency site restores</li>
<li>Support for managed and shared hosts such as WordPress.com, WPEngine, GoDaddy Managed, and more</li>
<li>Multi-threaded to support larger websites & databases</li>
<li>Migrate an entire multisite WordPress network or a sub site as a standalone site</li>
<li>Database and user creation <em>in the installer</em> with cPanel API</li>
<li>Connect to cPanel directly from the installer</li>
<li>Custom plugin hooks for developers</li>
<li>Advanced permissions</li>
<li>Email notifications</li>
<li>Professional support</li>
<li>… and much more!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Supported Backup Cloud Storage Integrations</h4>
<p>We support any Amazon S3 compatible storage providers plus these first-party integrations.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/secure-wordpress-backups/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=localhost_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Localhost Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/ftp-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=ftp_sftp_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">FTP/ SFTP Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/dropbox-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=dropbox_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Dropbox Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/google-drive-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=google_drive_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Drive Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/microsoft-one-drive-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=microsoft_one_drive_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Microsoft OneDrive Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/amazon-s3-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=amazon_s3_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Amazon S3 Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/cloudflare-r2-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=cloudflare_r2_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare R2 Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/wasabi-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=wasabi_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Wasabi Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/dream-objects-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=dream_objects_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Dream Objects Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/vultr-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=vultr_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Vultr Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/wordpress-backups-for-digitalocean-spaces/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=digital_ocean_spaces_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Digital Ocean Spaces Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/google-cloud-storage-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=google_cloud_storage_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Cloud Storage Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/backblaze-b2-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=backblaze_b2_storage_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Backblaze B2 Storage Backups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://duplicator.com/linode-object-storage-wordpress-backup-plugin/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=linode_object_storage_backups&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Linode Object Storage Backups</a></li>
</ul>
<p>You can easily see why Duplicator is the best WordPress backup and migration plugin on the market! Want to unlock these features? <a href="https://duplicator.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_content=upgrade_to_pro&utm_campaign=duplicator_lite" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to our Pro version</a></p>
<h4>Branding Guidelines</h4>
<p>Duplicator® is a registered trademark of Snap Creek LLC. When writing about the backup & migration plugin by Duplicator, please make sure to uppercase the initial first letter.</p>
<ul>
<li>Duplicator (correct)</li>
<li>duplicator (incorrect)</li>
</ul>


Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More

You have to do some leg work with this plugin to create a database depending on what hosting you use, but the amount of time saved and the integrity of your transferred data is well taken care of with this plugin.

Works like a charm

This made moving my wordpress site to a new server SO EASY AND PAINLESS (only needed the free version too). A+

Works so great, A+

importing is only available ip PRO version.

pathetic plugin

Best backup and migration plugin


The free version worked without a hitch. [BIG problems getting BlueHost issues squared away. Their support team is clueless. None of it was an issue with Duplicator!]


Free Version Worked Without A Hitch

Excellent free tool for moving your site in a self contained single file. Thx!


I've been using Duplicator for a few years now and it has saved me so much time doing from manual migrations. There are some substantial limitations for larger websites in the free version, but for most website the free version is more than sufficient. 


Easy-to-use and all-in-one solution for migration

just great


It does not update to a new version, when installing on a new website you enter a password to install and then there is only an advertisement for the PRO version. Hell, yesterday everything worked as it should and today it's a total flop and manual work. Back to the trees.


New version total fail

Works perfectly every time


Duplicator is a solid plugin for WordPress migration and backup. Trusted over years. Thank you guys.


Solid plugin


Great plugin! Using the free version, it requires following some instructions but it works perfectly as instructed.



Thanks


Awesome


Thank you for creating this wonderful plugin and making it available for free 🫡


Works perfect all the time!


Been using this plugin for a few years now, my goto plugin for migrations


Works great


I've been using this plugin for years and it's really convenient to backup or migrate a website. Thanks to the developer!


Very useful

Easy!


I have moved hundreds of sites with this plugin, it always works great.


Great plugin


It's my first choice for deploying websites to production since I discovered it.


Impresive option to deploy projects

Geat!


I have been using Duplicator for my websites' backups for a few years already and never had any problems with it. It works great for site migrations too. Thank you for such a great plugin!


The best plugin for backups, also works great for migrations

The best WordPress backup and migration plugin. Quickly and easily backup ,migrate, copy, move, or clone your site from one location to another.

ezMigrate vs Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More