The Easy (and FREE!) Way to Migrate a WordPress Website to Any Host

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In this video, I walk you through the process of migrating your WordPress website using the free Migrate Guru plugin. Say goodbye to migration headaches and learn how to effortlessly move your site from one host to another. Follow my step-by-step tutorial and enjoy a seamless, stress-free migration experience. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more helpful tips and tricks!
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@harietttrainer7682 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the informative video! For those (like me) who haven't delved into comments: DOES NOT MIGRATE FROM LOCAL HOST UNTO LIVE.

@derwinsierra3223 11 ай бұрын

This is AMAZING!!!! I tried it, migrated a site 4.82 gigs approximately 30,000 files. Give or take 35 minutes, flawlessly.

@PaulMcCannWebBuilder 2 ай бұрын

Same thing here.

@MassimoVilla Жыл бұрын

This process looks "magic", if compared to other migration methods. Kyle this is another pure gold content from you, thanks!

@user-ur7fe3js5h Жыл бұрын

Omg! This is the most helpful video I ever found. Cured me from my headache. All in one is not a cool plugin anymore.

@BillDaubenmier 3 ай бұрын

Wish I had found this GREAT tool a sooner. I manually moved a number of WP sites. What a pain that was. Thank you for a wonderful and short, to the point video.

@Rejoin_2023 9 ай бұрын

Looks great, but I must retain the same domain name and redirect the nameservers from the old to the new server. How do I do that?

@petrunecula 2 ай бұрын

I absolutely love you, I struggled so much with all in one plug-in and it often crashed things for me. This has been brilliant. Thanks a lot !!!!!

@elvisosmanovic4846 9 ай бұрын

after 5 days of slamming my head against the migration wall, this saved my life. Thank you so much

@HenkLevels 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! After hours and hours of trying with other migrate plugins and no result. This Migrate Guru did it!!!! Many thanks

@toshi14322 7 ай бұрын

After completion and testing the links etc. it was successful and I was literally clapping this guy while watching. Thank you very much sir. ❤

@markmurray4980 11 ай бұрын

This worked well for me. I was able to migrate a WP Multi-site install to a new WP instance. Very smooth, no issues. Thanks Kyle!

@TheHistoryKat 8 ай бұрын

It was my first time building a Wordpress site and moving it. Thank you so very much! The plugin worked perfectly. It was a stressful wait, but everything just moved over like magic.

@TheAdminBar 8 ай бұрын

I hate to tell you - but even hundreds of migrations later, it's still stressful 😂

@ahmadhadilukmanulhakim3920 5 ай бұрын

@@TheAdminBar i'm sorry. I want to ask how to migrate a wordpress web from local app to a live server for free. i have been trying to use this metode and got a message "cant migrate from the site that unreachable from internet". i tried with all-in-one wp plugin too, but i cant import, because only have 2mb limit upload. Thanks Bro

@Collinsdgr8 11 ай бұрын

I didn't believe this would work at first, but it was an amazing method, easy, simple, and fast.

@patrickdijkman8974 4 ай бұрын

Super video, thanks! Just moved a complete wordpress site, including the plugins, pages the whole thing.

@cesareoliva 6 ай бұрын

What's up with the domain.... how to migrate a site and have the same domain, that's the probblem.

@alain_laroche 10 ай бұрын

This plugin is fantastic! I use the migration key and my site was active in less than 15 minutes and everything was in order. Thanks a lot for this video because I was stressing out about the website launch but I feel like a pro lol 😎

@rdcochrane1746 5 ай бұрын

just migrated my second corporate website and again hassle free, thanks again, 5 star rating

@bexdowney 2 ай бұрын

This is better than the Migrate Guru official video!

@deer-designer Жыл бұрын

Can't believe how simple that is. Thanks Kyle!

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

🙌 Glad it's helpful!

@channel.ilevin Ай бұрын

Thanks for this video! You saved me $$$ when I need it :)

@MichaelSDoran 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I had a site that was in bad shape and being difficult to backup or migrate. This worked exactly as you said!

@apartmanhazvilladobra7989 4 ай бұрын

Great stuff and video! Easiest way to migrate, and it's really works!!!! Congrats!!!!

@savannahhilton2939 3 ай бұрын

WHATT!! This is the best thing I've ever found!! Thank you😍

@silkcdayspa 2 ай бұрын

Thank you that was just what I was looking for and it was so easy also I really like that you explain so clearly. Thanks

@thecooperkoch 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for creating this video! You saved me so much stress.

@deaneng8540 3 ай бұрын

migration key is so much easier! Thanks man!

@digitalmarketinglanzarote1424 5 ай бұрын

Amazing! This has worked like a dream, thank you!

@kleinsocrates9242 3 ай бұрын

wow what a seamless process, Thank you soooo much

@AdvanceWebSolutions 3 ай бұрын

Great tutorial it's nice there's another option out there other than All In One Migration. I doubt any of them are 100% foolproof but if this gets more consistent results moving forward I'll definitely switch. Thanks so much!

@nohaidea 3 ай бұрын

hey! did it work for you?

@AdvanceWebSolutions 3 ай бұрын

@@nohaidea it worked but the old website is still showing days later. This might be a hosting issue with GoDaddy however very strange.

@atikonium 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much this saved me a lot of time

@TheAdminBar 8 ай бұрын

Wahooo!

@zaidmackay Жыл бұрын

Just beautiful! lol Also used All-in-one-migration for years. Worked most of the time. But this is so much easier.

@dmaxgames9025 10 ай бұрын

My site weighs 800Mb, do you think that could work too?

@zaidmackay 10 ай бұрын

@@dmaxgames9025 try it out

@zanjansa9015 10 ай бұрын

@@dmaxgames9025 I migrated a site of over 100gb, no problems. It takes a few hours though.

@sascha4925 Жыл бұрын

Dude, thank you so much made my Day was searching for so long for a free tool or way to duplicate my Site. Thank you so much

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!! 🙌

@300BMotivational 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, It worked on my end. Saved me today

@charityshop4244 6 ай бұрын

the best migration video ever

@Klaus53123 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Many thanks. Will immediately install this to my starter site and use it to transfer this site to new client installs.

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

Let me know how it works for you!

@corneliousbasiima9003 Жыл бұрын

super easy far better than any other plugins wc take alot of time thanks for this boss

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@IvanOung Жыл бұрын

This is super helpful! Thank you Kyle being super insightful as always!!!

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@victoromondi7101 3 ай бұрын

Amazing. Makes work super easy.

@fahadurk Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@markresan2262 5 ай бұрын

Hi, Can I migrate even a large website with this? Let's say a website with a size of 500 Gb?

@alexway101 Жыл бұрын

Actually, for a migration you should allow somebody to download and upload your database. When this happening behind the scenes, it will always make me nervous. So I prefer to migrate my websites without such plugins. If you don't care - sure, this solution looks good.

@rdcochrane1746 6 ай бұрын

Worked perfectly thanks very much

@rgbcom 5 ай бұрын

Great video. Migrate Guru does appear to be simpler than All in One. You didn’t mention if it limits site size as AIO does. Last migration I did with the AIO plugin has given me a lot of headaches.

@JJPagac 2 ай бұрын

From the Migrate Guru Site: Built For Large Sites: Move or clone sites as large as 200 GB in a breeze. Large site migrations usually fail because of live-site server import limits.

@iChangeTradingPLC 4 ай бұрын

you make my life so much easier

@379rale Жыл бұрын

Love it! Love it! Love it! Thank you

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

Glad it's helpful!

@OtisBurgos 14 күн бұрын

I feel like my question is very specific but I'd love some clarification before I try it out .. I use Hostinger to host all my sites. I have one plan with multiple sites, but I want to transfer ONE of those sites to a NEW hosting plan within Hostinger. Is this possible through the method you showcased in this video? Hostinger has a really annoying and complicated process for internal migrations. This would be an absolute life-saver. P.S. Would your method have any issues with transferring over active MX records? I have emails attached to the domain, but the domain is also in Hostinger. Let me know! Thanks

@JupitersLuck Жыл бұрын

this is insane amazing plugin

@michaelfoerster3364 Жыл бұрын

Hi, I am wondering if this plugin replaces all the urls with the target urls. I have tested a lot of migration plugins and the most do not replace the target urls in all the wp tables in the database.

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

I'd have to test that specifically, but I've never ran into that issue here (or didn't realize I did 😅 )

@hemantjindgar4738 Жыл бұрын

They do change the URL in wp tables

@AiGenerationMagic 9 ай бұрын

Very grateful for your video, all other methods I tried failed. I will note that the migration did take a long time, I thought there was a timeout error, so be patient.

@jasonjkelley 6 ай бұрын

THIS WAS A LIFE SAVER!!!

@user-lj3cz4ml5w 9 ай бұрын

Very enlightening. Thanks

@nohaidea 3 ай бұрын

when i enter my email address, i get a 'sorry, we cannot complete this action' any idea how to solve this please?

@Xenio2007 Жыл бұрын

You are sending FTP/CPanel credentials on another site that will take care of the site transfer, is it safe? Probably, I don't know, but I prefer to use methods where I have control of the files/credentials.

@ioannispapaiacovou8376 3 ай бұрын

Even though I open the site and everything look fine When I open the WordPress after migration I get "Data Collection Error"

@AiLuke01 Жыл бұрын

Can you do this with two separate word press accounts or do they have to be the same? I want to create the website, then send it over to my clients account. Is this the same process?

@cureadan-emilian2579 Жыл бұрын

can you do it from local-host?

@shepdesign 8 ай бұрын

It says no

@roshdysourour4409 Жыл бұрын

extremely useful. Thank you

@thisweblabvideos Жыл бұрын

Nice, I have heard praise about it several times now. Process seems very straingt forward. Have you used this on large sites? Like, say 3 - 5 GB?

@kylevandeusen Жыл бұрын

Yep, never had a problem. Some say it's slower but I don't do it enough to notice that

@thisweblabvideos Жыл бұрын

@@kylevandeusen sadly my first exeperience with it produced serious issues with the migrated site. I am part to blame, as I tested the migrated site slopy so missed all the issues before it went live. :( have to go back to good old wpvivid. PS it is a multisite I had issues with

@realworldthor 5 ай бұрын

best method! thank you so much

@vaniateixeira1688 10 ай бұрын

It does not work from local to live server. Unfortunatelly.

@willlsummers Жыл бұрын

Does this copy the site to the new host? Like if I want to test this on our production site, it won't affect the prod site correct?

@user_bilal 5 ай бұрын

i want to move the same site with the same domain name to another host not to a different domain name

@bobfromca92646 Жыл бұрын

Is there a site size limit on free version like All-in-One has?

@kylevandeusen Жыл бұрын

None!

@PaulMcCannWebBuilder 2 ай бұрын

200GB!

@FederatedComputer 4 ай бұрын

This is by far the best way to migrate a wordpress site. Bar none.

@premnathd Жыл бұрын

Does this work when migrating from the local dev environment (xampp, mamp, local ) to live site ?

@riteshsoni7406 Жыл бұрын

No, Localhost migrations are not currently supported

@premnathd Жыл бұрын

@@riteshsoni7406 Thanks

@agentbey Жыл бұрын

Another gem. Thanks!

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@John.Valentine Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial. I followed the same method and used the migration key method. My client's site is broken on both source and destination site. I don't have access to my clients wrodpress dashboard and no backups just zip file. Please help me. It's urgent

@ioannispapaiacovou8376 3 ай бұрын

I have the same issues. Did you fix it and How?

@JamesHuxleyLondon 6 ай бұрын

This didn't work for me. Had an anxious couple of hours. I THINK that this was to do with permissions(??) or a secruity plugin on the site i was migrating too.

@annette-in-vegas Жыл бұрын

I just tried and the migration key failed, Migrate Guru's popup said that it failed on their end and to contact support. I click on support and get a 404 page. Not impressed with Migrate Guru and will try something else.

@visualmodo Жыл бұрын

Truly good work!

@PaulMcCannWebBuilder 2 ай бұрын

But one thing it can't do - clone a live site to a local dev site (or the other way around). Their FAQ says they're working on in, but it's from 2017. I want to give them money so it can do that as easily as it moves a 5GB/50k file site from one host to another.

@JohnnyLittleRiver 11 ай бұрын

I'm trying to use this to leave Bluehost but I get a Unable to Contact Source site error. I have no idea why

@AnisurRahman-yg3qv Жыл бұрын

i want to move to another host. Currently, using updraft plus, after changing the name server i restore the website using updraft plus. is there any better solution for changing hosting?

@Lirree88 5 ай бұрын

😞 my third try, 2 other optioned failed. i thought this was going to be the solution.

@SweetHasan 6 ай бұрын

Many Many Thanks

@BrannyKe 3 ай бұрын

Am having trouble please help

@christinadanderson424 Жыл бұрын

Loved it.

@dzulhelmi81 Ай бұрын

But what if you are migrating the same website (same URL) but only to different hosting?

@TheAdminBar Ай бұрын

Same process - it doesn't matter what the URL is. You'll just point your domain to one server or the other.

@Sonya_Makepeace 7 ай бұрын

You don't need any plugins to migrate a wordpress site. All you need to do is export your database, change all the url's in that database to your new site and import the sql file into your new database. I did this in 10 minutes

@TheAdminBar 6 ай бұрын

Then why would you watch this video? 😂

@PaulMcCannWebBuilder 2 ай бұрын

... and migrate all the plugins with their license keys, settings and options, all the media uploads, with any membership, WooCommerce, event plugin options and uploads, custom theme options, stuff in the customizer, ACF/CPT settings, block options etc, etc. And might have to fix your imported posts in the with fix-wordpress-export-wpautop, etc. etc. Database export/import migration is easy on small sites, but not with larger sites that have lots of stuff that isn't in the database.

@Sonya_Makepeace 2 ай бұрын

@@PaulMcCannWebBuilder I don't use anything that requires payment, so all I can say is that my migration went ok. But you're correct in that it will cause lots of problems. Anyway, I've gone back to static sites, as I couldn't get WordPress to look how I wanted it and it is a very steep learning curve.

@esportmlid 8 ай бұрын

Thank you

@photosme9370 11 ай бұрын

thank you so much

@tonybp 4 ай бұрын

What kind of sorcery is this?

@cambsdigital 9 ай бұрын

Privacy concerns as they state they use your website content! - Contents of your website that you upload while using our Services (hereinafter collectively referred to as “User Content”). Not much legal controls for companies in India so we hope that the developers have good intentions.

@milk4chillout 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. But isn't it a bit too simple? Hardly any website works today without the use of site passwords? This is also asked by Migration Guru. If I try without a password, there is an error. And: Isn't what you show us at the end as the "result" your source page? Of course you look exactly like that :) Isn't the landing page the second tab? but you don't show it at the end. Or have I misunderstood something?

@TheAdminBar 5 ай бұрын

I'm not trying to trick you. I've used this probably nearly 100 times 🤷

@chuckwhite8256 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, I was 10 seconds away from buying all-in-one premium

@TheAdminBar 10 ай бұрын

Saved ya a couple bucks! Though, what I do like about all-in-one is being able to sore a hard copy.

@helloaridesign 11 ай бұрын

looks like a great tool!

@theewillreacts Жыл бұрын

This is more about "how to migrate a WordPress website to a new URL rather than just "host". For the record, this is not a go-to plugin when you only want to switch hosting providers and retain your URL.

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

Works just the same, no?

@theewillreacts Жыл бұрын

@@TheAdminBarNo, it doesn't. I tried to move my site to another hosting but it didn't work. It is an incredible plugin for moving sites while changing URLs, not for changing hosting providers and retaining URLs.

@steffox6362 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tip!!!! This sounds too good to be true! One question: how must the target server be, to which I want to move? Do I have to prepare a clean, empty wordpress installation there? I have to move a large wp installation to a customer's server soon. The problem: the customer's server is in chaos. The theme there is extremely outdated. It's teeming with error messages in the dashboard. Do i have to uninstall everything before I start the migration? Thanks for a quick note!

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

No, you do not **need** to change anything. Just migrate it over. That might leave junk in the database (I'm not sure), but it will work.

@steffox6362 Жыл бұрын

@@TheAdminBar Thank you so much!

@Critterles 11 ай бұрын

Question: If the original site has any licensed plugins that need to be registered. How does this work with Migration Guru? Do you just need to go into each plugin and re-register it for the new site?

@subazsarma 11 ай бұрын

yes, that's how it works no matter how you migrate

@Skratchable Жыл бұрын

nice! how does it work with multisite?

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure... I've never used multisite.

@bootsieultrawave6553 10 ай бұрын

Works perfect!

@TheAdminBar 10 ай бұрын

🙌

@sma_bari 10 ай бұрын

they don't migrate the localhost files🙂

@waltermadrigalugalde Жыл бұрын

Thanks, new suscriber

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

Glad to have you!

@udaogugua8249 Жыл бұрын

Sir, my problem is that i only want to change the host and use the same domain, how can i solve it?

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

No problem at all. Same process exactly! Make the new destination the URL of your site then swap out your DNS records.

@amandarodrigueztejeda8098 Жыл бұрын

Hi, I did that, and it worked, but my user to login doesn't work anymore, please HELP!

@TheAdminBar 11 ай бұрын

Hmmmm I've not had that happen. Did you open a support ticket?

@teecorleytravels 5 ай бұрын

jfc thank you so much

@TheZebaldo Жыл бұрын

thanks a lot!

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@juangaitan4549 8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! This plugin is amazing

@lydialutz Жыл бұрын

I believe you that this is magical for most :D. But my migration is failing with this plugin. If I figure out why, I will report back here. :)

@TheAdminBar Жыл бұрын

Oh no! I'm sorry to hear it's not working. Please follow up and let me know if you figure out what's going wrong so I can update the description!

@SpartecusNL Ай бұрын

Okey this doesnt work if you have you dev website running locally. you will get the error Sorry, we cannot complete this action. after typing in your email.