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Hey guys, I am in desperate need of your brain power please!I need to move a WordPress site from someone else’s account to mine. I then need to use a new domain for the site as the current one has expired and is no longer available. There is an updraft back up of the site available.
I have the new WP account set up with a business plan and new domain. I also have admin access to the current WP site. Where do I go from here?
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I have used vivid backup to backup and transfer contents with success. It’s a niftynlittle plugin. Make sure you have the same database version installed as the previous site.
If you only have access to the Updraft files, then it’s a little bit clunky:
1. Download the updraft backup. Open the DB backup zip, extract the sql file, and in the wp_options table section, and change the ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ values to be the new domain name. Do not do a find/replace on the whole file.
2. On the new site, install Updraft. Use their “upload backup” feature to upload.
3. Restore the backup – Updraft might whinge about the domain names being different – you can ignore that.
4. Install the “Better Search Replace” plugin and use it to change the domain name references. e.g. [https://olddomain.com]) to [https://newdomain.com])