InstaWP

<p>InstaMigrate provides authenticated REST API endpoints that enable full WordPress site migrations between servers. It handles database export/import with binary-safe hex encoding, file archiving and transfer, and serialization-aware search-replace for domain changes.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Database export with binary-safe hex encoding (preserves serialized PHP data)</li>
<li>Database import with streaming line-by-line parsing (handles large dumps)</li>
<li>File upload, download, archiving (tar.gz/zip), and extraction</li>
<li>Serialization-aware search-replace for domain migrations</li>
<li>Dual authentication: API key header or WordPress Application Passwords</li>
<li>WP-CLI detection (informational, reported in status endpoint)</li>
<li>Admin UI showing API key and endpoint documentation</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> This plugin grants full database and filesystem access via its REST API. Deactivate and delete it immediately after your migration is complete.</p>


InstaMigrate

Secure REST API endpoints for WordPress site migration — database export/import, file transfer, and search-replace.

Hristo Pandjarov

Stoyan Georgiev

Stanimir Stoyanov

SiteGround

Elena Chavdarova

Ignat Georgiev

Asparuh Tenev

<h4>SiteGround Migrator: the easiest way to move your site to SiteGround</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Important: This solution is not suitable for migrating localhost WordPress sites or for Full Multisite installations (separate Multisite blogs are fine).</p>
<h4>How to Use</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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!</p>


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.

InstaMigrate vs SiteGround Migrator