How to Migrate Your Website With All-In-One WP Migration
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How to Migrate Your Website With All-In-One WP Migration
This guide will show you how to move your website from a local installation to a live server, or from one server to another, using the All-In-One WP Migration plugin. The process is the same regardless of where you are transferring the site from and to or which technique you are using. Essentially, we will be creating a backup of a site in one location and restoring that backup in another location. The following steps will provide a detailed walkthrough on how to migrate your Avada site using All-In-One WP Migration.
Installing The Plugin
All-in-One WP Migration is available in the WordPress repository. This means it can be installed and activated directly from WordPress. Navigate to the Plugins > Add Plugin page and search for ‘All-In-One WP Migration’. When it shows on the page, you just need to click Install, and then when that is finished, you will need to click Activate. The plugin is now installed and can be accessed from the WordPress Main Menu.
Export The Site
All-in-One WP Migration does not have any settings, and takes a very streamlined approach to the task of migrating your site. Any options are included in the export and import workflow. The reason for this, and why this process is quite different to the one outlined in, that the All-In-One WP Migration plugin only exports your site’s contents and database, and not WordPress itself. As such, to import the site on the new location, WordPress must be already installed. Let’s see how it all works.
To begin with it, simply click on the All-in-One WP Migration link on the WordPress Dashboard menu. The first thing you see is a very streamlined page, with a large ‘Export To’ button at the bottom. It is in fact as simple as clicking on this button to proceed. There are additional options, and there is a Find and Replace function at the top if needed, but most users can simply click Export To, and continue the process.
The available options are exclusion options, and some are purely for troubleshooting purposes. Most users will not need or want, to exclude any of their site’s content, but it’s worth having a look to see if any of the options apply to your site.
Once you have chosen any options, the next thing to do is to click the ‘Export To’ button. A dropdown appears with apparent choices of where to Export your file to. With the free version of All-In-One WP Migration, only the File option is available. All other options are individual extensions that you can purchase. For our example, we are just going to export to a file.
The plugin then prepares the Export file. This may take some time, depending on the size of your site. At the end of the process, you will see a ‘Download’ button. The file is also stored in the Backups section found at All-In-One WP Migrations > Backups. Click on the Download button to download the Export file to your local computer. Again, this may take some time, depending on the size of the file and your Internet speed.
Once you have your file, you are ready to move on to the Import Process. This takes place on your new server.
Import The Site
Now you have your Export file, it’s time to complete the migration of your site. However, whether you are moving the site from a local display site to a new server, or from one hotelkeeper to another, the method is exactly the same.
The starting end for importing the site is a new install of WordPress on your destination location. If it’s a brand new site, then all you require to do is categorize the hosting and domain name, and install WordPress in your new account.
If you are moving a site from one host to another, and you would appreciate avoiding downtime, there are a few additional steps you require to take. There are many ways to do this, relying on your hosting, but essentially, you want to be able to log in to your new account and import the site before switching nameservers.
My favored way of doing this is to get the IP address of the new version and use the host’s file on my computer to map the IP to the domain name temporarily so that I can finish the import and only then when the site has been migrated, modify nameservers. This video goes over the process.
OK, so when you have a fresh copy of WordPress ensconced in your destination location, you need to install the All-In-One WP Migration plugin similarly. Once you have done that, authority over to Import. The discussion you see is as equally simple as the Export one.
The best thing to note here is that you might include a low Ultimate Upload File Size, as shown in the image below, relying on your hosting. There are good teachings on the Servmask website for how to resolve this.
You can see in this double image, that I have improved the file upload size.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All-In-One WP Migration has a built-in limit of 512MB for uploading files. To overcome this for larger sites, the Unlimited Extension must be purchased. @70% discount
Once you are ready to upload simply click on the ‘Import From’ button and navigate to the file you downloaded earlier.
Once you have chosen your file, the plugin gets to work crafting the upload. You will see a flurry of action about Training the upload and matching extensions compatibility etc, and then you will be offered a screen that lets you understand that by restarting from this topic, files and databases resolve to be overwritten.
Click Proceed to import your site, or Close to abort at this topic. If you proceed, the import starts. This might take time, relying on how big your site is, and the quickness of your host.
When the upload is complete, you will be informed with a final mesh that your data has been successfully imported. The last step, as shown on the screen, is to log in to the new site using your old site’s certificates and save the Permalinks twice. This completes the migration operation and your site has now been successfully transferred.
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