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Moving Wordpress site: How-to / Checklist

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  • 29-07-2012 7:49pm
    #1
    gnolan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭


    Background

    I've designed my first Wordpress site for a client (a small college) which is a redesign of their current non-Wordpress site. They currently have their own hosting but I would like to move it to my own host (Blacknight) because I think they are overpaying significantly. I am tying up some loose ends with the redesigned site which i have hosted on some free hosting (000webhost).

    Migrating

    My problem is I don't really know how to approach migrating the site from it's current free hosting to either their hosting or my Blacknight hosting. I obviously download the site via FTP and backup the database; then upload these to my new hosting. What do i then need to change in WP Admin? Is there a handy checklist of things to do when migrating a site like this?

    Moodle

    The client uses Moodle. I've used Moodle before but never developed with it. Their address for moodle is: theirsite.ie/moodle/login/index.php

    Will i be able to just grab their moodle folder and simply link to it? Does changing their host create any conflicts within Moodle?

    Those are some of my questions and i'd appreciate if anyone could help me out. Thanks.


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    fcrossen
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭fcrossen


    A quick Google answers your first question:
    https://www.google.ie/search?q=migrating+wordpress

    In general any PHP site can be migrated by copying all files and grabbing the database. You restore them on your new server, edit the database connection settings and any settings related to paths and domains. Moodle will have similar instructions - Google is again your friend.


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    adm
    Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭adm


    One tip:

    By default wordpress stores the siteurl and home url in the db but
    you can hard code these into wp-config.php.

    define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://site.com/');
    define('WP_HOME', 'http://site.com/');

    Also I always install search/replace plugin
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/

    and replace all my dev urls with the live url.


    On moodle, yes just copy over the folder and database and change config file


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    gnolan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭gnolan


    I've been taking another look at this and it looks like i'll be switching the hosting for this site. Another thing that occurred to me is that they currently have around 50 email addresses currently. How do i go about transferring these email addresses? Is it possible or do i have to set them all up again?


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    fcrossen
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭fcrossen


    gnolan wrote: »
    that they currently have around 50 email addresses currently. How do i go about transferring these email addresses? Is it possible or do i have to set them all up again?

    You will need to set them up again. You might be able to migrate depending on what control panel software your new provider uses.


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