How to Migrate WordPress site from one Domain to another ?

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How to migrate WordPress site from one domain to another? [Important| Latest Tutorials 2019]

In order to migrate WordPress site from your Hosting provider to another Hosting provider you need to follow few steps [updated May 2019]

• Login to your existing cPanel and go WordPress installation directory
• Now copy all the files into a zip folder

• Download the .Zip file in your PC.
• Now go to Back Up wizard in your cpanel and take a backup of MySQL database

• Download the .gz file in your local PC.
• Just install 7 zip from here . Now Open the .gz file from this 7 zip program

• Now drag and drop that SQL file outside of that zipped content open with note pad and then press Ctrl+ H(Find & Replace)

 

• Find the old wordpress installed URL for ex. http://olddomain.com/folder and replaced it with new URL. Just make sure you replace each and every single old url with the new one whether it is in the format of http:// or https://
  Once you done with the replacement part, save it and again drag and drop this SQL file into that sql.gz file inside 7 zip and replace the existing file (Note: Ignore this step if you trying to migrate WordPress to new cPanel with same domain name)

 

• Now Login to your new cPanel account open File Manager
• Go inside public_html file and upload the .Zip file

• After it gets uploaded Extract it!!

• After this Login to your new cPanel and go to Backup Wizard and click on restore section

• Final step -select the database and Upload the .gz file