Wow, after many years of relying on migration plugins with one problem after another, I've learned how to move a site manually with your video. I really can't thank you enough!

I have used many plugins and methods out there (such as, all-in-one wp migration, Duplicator, Cloning ... etc) to migrate my websites, large ones as well as small, from different hosts and within the same host but never they gave intended results. All those plugins have been created for few specific cases and can not be used for other general scenarios. This manual method as Josh explains is the best and trouble free method that can be used in general. I recommend this method to be used if you don't want to waste time and disappointment. Thank you Josh.

Wow, Bravo Sir, I have been a hobbyist for 10 years and this is the first I was able to successfully transfer a site to new hosting with no issues. I was able to move 10 before the first one finished with the old method that I knew through FTP upload. Thank you for the video.

This was an excellent and comprehensive instructions. And NOT ONE sales pitch for a masterclass. Am I still in KZfaq? Have I travelled back in time to a world before everyone was a guru?

This is one of the most valuable tutorials for WordPress ever. It's saved me heaps of cash and made me feel comfortable with databases.

After trying the All-in-one-Migration and hitting the wall because of the file size upload limit.. I tried your method and it worked! Excellent presentation of step by step for dummies. Thank You!

Hi Josh, Just letting you know I tried to migrate my site and watched 4 diff youtube videos before I found yours! None of the others worked but yours did! You're amazing!

I'm a complete noob to Wordpress and was absolutely dreading my site migration, but this was a walk in the park! Thanks so much, Josh! Amazingly detailed and valuable tut 🙌🙌🙌

I was having so much trouble with upload limits from my web host, and this manual upload just totally bypassed all of that. All I needed was to upload only the essentials. Absolute godsend Josh, thank you so much!

very helpful. been awake for 12 hours finding the right tutorial to transfer my old website to the new one. thank you for this. this is amazing!

Josh Thanks a ton for this tutorial. I was having a hard time migrating a website, used duplicator, Aio, Wivid etc. but no use. I just followed your steps in tutorial and finally got the migration done. I am really grateful for this detailed tutorial and appreciate your efforts for making this video. PS. THIS METHOD STILL WORKS IN 2022.

Thank you so very much for your help, I have been back and forth with my hosting account for a month trying to get my websites back up and you showed me how in 20 mins. You are the best!!!!

May God bless you for proving this abundance of knowledge free of charge. My heart melts when I land on a channel where the explainer explains everything in detail and takes me step by step through all that I should do. It worked perfectly well. Now I have my site up and I'm so so happy. Thank you so much Josh!

Josh your tutorial has helped me on a whole new level. The level of clarity I have achieved through your easy-to-follow steps is unbelievable. Kudos to you!!

I have no words to thank you as you deserve. This issues has suffered me almost 4-5 months untill I found your video and solved my problem within 1 hours. You just awesome bro. 🤘😎💙💙

I'm just going to go ahead and leave what I think is my FIRST KZfaq comment ever while my WP-Content is uploading and say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for this video and saving me time, money, and headache learning this elsewhere. Videos like this on the public domain are what make me believe in the internet. God bless.

This manual method Worked for me very well, Wordpress transfer plugins were not working for me... A big thank you to you...👍

Thank you veeery much !!! You saved my life. It worked and i could transfer my websites after following your guideline . When thinking, i have known a reliable way to transfer sites without relying on other plugins, I am sooo happy. I m sooo glad that I could find your this tutorial youtube video accidentally and finally . Plzzz load more tutorials!!!

Hey Josh, a 1,000 thank yous and tonnes of gratitude for this video. I spent 4.5 hours yesterday trying to migrate a 1,000 page site with the all-in-one wp migration tool. I reduced the w.press file down from 525MB, to 497MB, to 470MB, to 455MB and none of them worked. They all hung! I had such a hard time yesterday that I had no faith that the paid version would even work. Losing money would pale next to the amount of time that would be lost raising their support across time zones etc etc. Losing more time, not migrating the site and not learning anything was the biggest cost I dreaded. Then this morning the first video KZfaq served me was Simplest way to transfer/migrate your WordPress website to another host in 7 mins and the second was yours: How to MANUALLY Migrate Your Wordpress Site. Talk about serendipity. Or the Google Chrome - KZfaq algorithm. Even though the first video is very good, I chose yours to work with because of all the step-by-step documentation and timestamps you provided (plus your site that I linked through too!). Long story short, I followed step by step, screenshotting all the steps I took to create a 78 page Google how-to-do-this doc with our-sites-on-our-servers document for my future reference and as training tool for a future team member. Everything went well until this step at 16:13 - Check new site. The browser showed a critical error alert where the site should have been. I got onto webhost support. They increased the memory limit to 128MB in the php.ini in the MultiPHP INI Editor panel and suddenly the site displayed. The only other unexpected step was the Velvet Blues Update URLs recommendation to back up the imported site before updating the URLS. Which I did follow. Apart from these two off-script variations, your step-by-step was perfect. I got a great result from the time invested. I got a great how-to-document out of it. I have broken through a barrier. Thank you for this video and this result. Consider me a future Cpanel course student. I will happily pay the tuition fee not only for that course but also for the help and education and sense of real achievement that following your video has given me. I am so pleased to know now how to manually migrate a wordpress site from one domain to another (or one subdomain to another). Even more pleased to have achieved this first with a big site. This smile is going to hang around for quite a while. :) :) Thank you again Josh.

Finally, this video is the best answer to a huge issue concerning website migration

It worked great, I migrated my 1.4GB site from a shared hosting plan to a VPS and everything works perfectly!

HUGE thank you Josh for taking an intimidating task and breaking it down with expert step by step instructions in human speak. I almost can't believe I got it right the first time!

Josh, you are the best! I was trying hard to migrate a site with the help of plugins, but the site was too huge. Then, I decided to do a manual migration, and your video saved my life. I haven't commented on any KZfaq videos before. Your video forced me to say Thanks to you. I'm so grateful for this video.

I migrated my site to a different hosting provider without a full backup just half. Still had acces to the old hosting database etc, you saved my life. Thank you

Thank you very much Josh! I've been struggling on transferring the files and have used a lot of duplicating tools but to no avail. Your step-by-step tutorial really did work, you literally saved my job. Thank you very much!

I tried several plugins that didn't work for me. This worked. Thank you!

After 5 years, successfully migrated a website without usng any plugin after watching this video, you have earned a subscriber. God bless.:)

Ive used this video about 4-5 times in the last 3 years and it literally is the only way I know that works to actually migrate a wordpress site, so thank you so much for the video!

2020 and still rescuing people! Thank you so much. After 8 failed attempts, this was the instruction I should have seen first :)

Your tutorial is so good, you make me feel like I actually know what I'm doing. You just saved me $75! I have to subscribe just as a matter of principal.

Dear Josh, with this tutorial I have learned more than in all the years before regarding content and database. Now, it seems so easy - without all that bs with plugins - I am just so happy. Thank you very much!

This is an amazingly helpful tutorial. I could not even find anything close to this useful on any reputable host companies sites. It works in 2021 too. The clean up at the end is unnecessary if you do not change the site name too. Please do an updated version so we never lose this online!

Hi Josh, Just want to thank you for all the amazing tutorials you're putting up. You're very clear and concise in your explanation and it makes it really easy to follow. Always look forward to what you're going to share every week. Keep them coming! Imran

Thanks a lot for this awesome tutorial. I just want to know, is this method also applicable in the case if we want to change only hosting company and not domain name?

You had saved my day. Almost a month of thinking different option for migration, yours is very simple, straight forward and easy to understand. Thanks a lot.

Thanks Josh, I can confirm this works in 2023 with HostGator. HostGator advertises they will migrate sites for you, but fails to mention or at least not made obvious there is a cap on how many files they can migrate. Luckily I found your video, watched it all the way through once, then followed along while migrating. Made it through with minimal errors. Thanks so much, we are live!!!

This process works 100%! I've used this steps in migrating 15+ small WP sites. Though plugins make our lives easier, it still counts to know how to do things manually. Thanks for this manual Josh!

NOTE: I had not moved across/created a .htaccess file and it was causing errors. Ser, your video is brilliant. honestly. it is clear, descriptive and you are easy to understand. everything about it was great. But when i did my ftp migration the homepage worked alright but the other links from that page DID NOT WORK. i knew that the issue was NOT with you because of how clear you were. So i had to call me hosting provider and they told me what the issue was. i did not have a .htaccess file moved accross. infact, i did not have one created at all on the "new site" that i was working on. my tech support said immediately "oh you are missing the htacess file" when i told him what the issue was. Thanks again for the great vid

This is the only tutorial that I came across that actually helped from beginning to end in a clear, simple way. Thanks so much!

Not only is this the still relevant in 2021. This has been the most helpful tutorial on migration that I have run across and I've seen several. Excellent tutorial. You've earned another subscriber!

Thank you so much, man. You saved my life, still this method working in 2020. You earned one subscriber.

After purchasing the All in one WP migration, I spent 15 hours uploading three times without success. My site is up and running after trying this manual technique once. Thank you so much!! You are amazing!

Nice & works like a charm! I did ran into an issue due to WordPress versions being different: the old site still was 4.8.21 while the new had already 6.0.3. The problem's root cause is that with different WP version, the database structure might be different as well. Solved it by reinstalling WP on the new site but with a WP version that was close (4.8.3) to the version of the orginal site. I did not choose to upgrade the WP version on the old site as it also contained a lot of out-dated plugins. Kinda bad management of the previous administrator. After migration, I took a full backup of the site (I recommend the BACKWPUP plugin) for safety and then updated WP and the outdated plugins. New fresh and up2dated and secure site and a happy customer as a result.

You are right! It still works in 2024. I was trying various migration or backup plug-ins to make a staging or development version on my local machine running XAMPP. Alot have failed. Your method works! B4 this I was watching another youtuber about how to manually migrate but somehow it was confusing to me. Your video made it easy for me to understand. Thanks

I've been trying to migrate my website manually for the last 3 days and was close to getting a depression 🤣 I actually started my last attempt on doing it myself with this video and it finally worked out. Thank you so much for this super straightforward tutorial!

I moved my website to a different server in the same host probably in under 15 minutes, watching this video... And everything seems to work fine. Thanks a lot!

you are the sal khan on wordpress. thank you so much. you do not skip or assume any details. you are clear and consice, you explain everything. Very very good. please keep up the good work and teh videos coming! i tried everything, all in one wp, dilutor or whatever it is, this is the only system i could understand and implement

OMG! It actually works! Massive Thanks to you Josh Hall. :)

Tried many videos on the internet and only through your video I could do the successful transfer. Thanks a billion.

Moved my site from Bluehost to HostGator using this video, thank you for creating it

This video is by far the BEST. I was able to manually move my WP site to another ISP. It worked perfectly.

This tutorial has saved me so much money moving my sites from Bluehost over to SiteGround. There is a $30 fee per site to have SiteGround do it, but this tutorial has saved me upwards of $300. Thanks so much!

It's true what the title said, 2024 the tricks still work. Thanks for the help Josh!

Great video, i was missing two key steps and your video helped me. Thanks so much.

This method works perfectly, all everyone has to do is be patience, go slowly step by step and that's all. No plugin needed. Thanks Josh, successful migration. I did not use the plugin because I used different hosting but same domain name, again thank your.

CHAMP! This method is going straight into my back pocket. Worked for a major site transfer and saved me so much time and pain not needing to use FTP!

Phucking awesome Josh!! All other tutorials focus of high level plugin operation and not how to do it at file level! Thanks so much for thorough explanation! :D

Thank you so much for this video. It's truly great. Saved my project just now! Many thanks.

I love you :D I needed to migrate my website. Although I took all the necessary backups, I encountered an error in all installations on my new server until I watched your video.

Hi Josh, just went through your tutorial, still works well in 2021, love from Zambia. Brilliant stuff!!

Worked perfectly! Couldn't have done it without you. Thanks!

Best tutorial for wordpress migration. Other websites make it super complicated, you made it clear and easy. Thanks man.

I spend two days trying all sorts of site migration. I am really glad I came across your channel. I am finally able to migrate my sites without any issues. Keep up man!

thank you for this great video I was faded up with migrate but I will try this which I was looking for...i will comment again after done my migration manually like you........again back you are the rock I did it with your help manual it's amazing man thanks a lot now going to other website migrate

This is the BEST video I have ever seen related to WordPress migration. Thanks Josh!

AIOWPM was not working even with the "unlimited" extension... I remembered watching this some years ago so I came back and followed along. Boom! Easy peasy, Josh, you're a master. Thanks so much.

You saved me on this one!! Thank you so much. This was the most in-depth tutorial that actually worked! I had accidentally moved over a domain without exporting wordpress files and I thought I was about to have to redo the entire site. THANK YOU.

Success in my first attempt just because of you. Appriciate your effort! Thanks.

I've never had such an easy time migrating a site. Thank you for the content !

I have never subscribed to anything but you explain it so well and it actually works. Thank you.

Thank you Josh!! You turned what would have been stressing out for 24 hours to 3-4 hours :)

i just wanna say you are awesome man. My client had a large WordPress website and it really helped me out.

Thanks Josh. By far the easiest and most thorough tutorial on migrating a WP site I've seen. I wanted to try it manually, before using a plugin, so I understood the process. I think I will continue to migrate all sites in the future using this method. Also, thanks for the worksheet. I copied it to Evernotes with checkboxes and a link to this tutorial.

Hey Josh... Thanks for your tutorial. I've used it twice. You would think I'd learn from the first go!!! but there are a few steps to get right and this tutorial has worked for me twice. Thanks very much.

Thank you very very much for this video. I tried many plugins, but nothing works. But I did what you teach. It works well. I'm say thank you from my heart! All the best!!!

Awesome mate thank you very much! I followed so many guides including some from my new host with no luck. Your video helped me so thank you very much!!

Thank you so much for this tutorial! It is a life-saver! Following this, I have avoided $49 charge my host was going to charge me!

Thank you so much for this tutorial - man saved me hours of work setting up our website on a new domain. I'm still learning about creating and updating websites and you have taught me so much in the last 30mins. Thanks a million.

This saved me! I kept trying to migrate a site from one domain to another with various plugins and they would get stuck and never complete. This worked perfectly! Thank you so much!

God bless you man for making this detailed video. The biggest challenge was to come across your video!! Thank you.

Thanks Josh, I followed this video 4 years ago for the first time. I'm still following it whenever I stuck. Thank again.

thank you! I was so worried I'd mess up my first migration from local to live, but you made this so easy.

Thank you so much for all the detailed information. I couldn't log in to my wp-admin after the site transfer and it was because I was missing the plugin you mentioned to change the URL's. Awesome! Josh, you are a life saver!

I rarely (if never) comment on KZfaq videos but this was super helpful man.

After, watching so many tutorials on migrating WP sites, this is the best so far. Thanks @Josh

You really might not understand how helpful this video was to me, thank you very much!!!

Finally a tutoral that works!! Thank you so much!

Works like a charm Josh! I have not done this in a long time (5 years). Good and precise refresher.

Thanks so much! I have successfully migrate the site! :) That you told us to drink a coffee is most helpful too!! Love it!

Hi Josh, for the last thing, "Changing URLS by the plugin" , we can just have changed another path in wp-options i.e wp-upload_path URL, so change the site URL, change the Home URL & lasty change the upload path for all attachments. Thanks for the tutorial

I know I can easily get solution on KZfaq but not knowing it's this easy. Have never comment on any watched videos before, it's my first time and it's because it is amazing. You are genius bro. Though have not test it but believe it's gonna work.

Overall I work with big websites which are 2GB+ in size. All of the 'free' plugins haven't worked for me: Duplicator, All in One WP migration. Nothing worked. This tutorial from Josh is far the best out there for manually migrate! Takes a little longer but definitely gets you the work done you want and need!!

Awesome...As I have been using GoDaddy, I couldn't find the "home" option to edit the URL. But then I found that there are more then one page in that option section. So I clicked "next", and there was "home" option. There you can edit the home URL. And now my website migration is successfully completed. Thanks to Josh. :)

Years later... I'm right into this thing now. I can't wait to impress my boss with a new skill. Thanks a ton !

One of the best Migration videos I have ever seen, thanks again!

Josh, thank you so so much for such a useful video. It is unbelievable not a single hosting provider can put such helpful information in an organized and easy way. WORKS!

This video has literally saved me over US$10 000. Thank you so much Josh!

FANTASTIC!!! Wow - you saved me so much time. Perfect instructions, great cadence with no BS! Thank you Thank you!!

Still helpful. Finally I got my local copy working. Thank you so much!

I was actually stuck while doing the manual migration but after your easy-to-follow steps, it was excellent. A million thanks!