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>
This plugin makes it easy to use and migrate your blog across different locations by detecting the current location and 
replacing all absolute paths on the fly. 
While there are ways to move your blog around by replacing the locations within the database manually or through scripts, 
they are very error prone and not very easy to do. 
Once enabled, this plugin doesn’t require you to do anything other than move your code and database to a new location 
when you want to. You can even access your blog through multiple urls at the same time when you need to.
This plugin is useful when:
<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>
The ezMigrate plugin does the following things:
<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>
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.
What this plugin doesn’t do (but might do in the future):
<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>
Known plugins that won’t work on multiple locations without modification:
<ul>
<li>cforms II, http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin 
won’t work because of absolute paths in abspath.php and js/cforms.js</li>
</ul>

ezMigrate

Enables you to move your blog across locations, or even make it available through multiple…

Hristo Pandjarov

Stoyan Georgiev

Stanimir Stoyanov

SiteGround

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Ignat Georgiev

Asparuh Tenev

<h4>SiteGround Migrator: the easiest way to move your site to SiteGround</h4>
This plugin is designed to automate the transfer of a WordPress instance to a SiteGround hosting account. It can’t be used to transfer a WordPress instance to another hosting provider.
Important: This solution is not suitable for migrating localhost WordPress sites or for Full Multisite installations (separate Multisite blogs are fine).
<h4>How to Use</h4>
First, you need to get a transfer token from your SiteGround account. You can do this through the WordPress Migrator tool located in the WordPress section of your SiteGround hosting control panel.
Once you select the domain name that you want to initiate the transfer for, our system will generate a transfer token for you.Paste the token in your SiteGround Migrator plugin and press Initiate Transfer. That’s all!

SiteGround Migrator


With all other ISPs I will only set up Wordpress migrations manually - upload files, revise the DB to match the final url, upload data to the new home, update permalinks if necessary. Just recently I decided to give SiteGround's migration plugin a try. And ohmygosh is it simple and non-intrusive and perfect. Nice work, y'all.


I normally HATE giving up full control, but...


Has never worked for me, even when moving from one SG account to another. Have tried it on maybe half a dozen sites.


Never worked


Thank you SiteGround for such a brilliant plugin - it makes launching new websites so smooth and easy, and we love teaching our DIY website students how to use this plugin when they launch their beautiful new websites!


Makes launching so smooth!


Solo una de cada 10 transferencias funcionó.



useful and necessary plugin for beginners and not only


necessary plugin for beginners and not only


Every time I use this, and I've used it a dozen times or more, I have to double and triple check which site is the source and which site is the destination. The documentation does not make it clear, and it's easy to make a mistake. Getting it wrong will wipe your existing site and replace it with the blank site you're attempting to migrate it to. There's no reason why they are unable to explain their own product in plain English, using simple words like FROM and TO.


Terrifyingly vague

Transfer your WordPress website to SiteGround without any hassle in a completely automated way using SiteGround Migrator.

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