Comments on: How To: Move a WordPress Blog to a New Hosting Account

By: Julia Babich

Julia Babich — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:17:41 +0000

Thanks a lot for this post.

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:59:09 +0000

hey man, i was designing my site with a local host using xampp. i changed all the database and installed wordpress succesfully in the new host. the problem is that there was no content on my website. it was like a default instalation, only with my theme. the only thing i did was exporting my site with the wordpress tool, and import it again at the new host. it was not perfect, the sidebar was a mess, the plugins were all deactivated. do you know why this happens? thanks

By: Emmy Batcheller

Emmy Batcheller — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:11:24 +0000

test ya adam

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2base tl — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:11:45 +0000

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By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:56:30 +0000

Did not work for me.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:57:35 +0000

Yes Fantastico is installed in my cPanel. If you don’t have Fantastico just do a regular WordPress install via the instructions at wordpress.org

The most important file from your NEW WordPress installation is wp-config.php, which contains your database connection. If you don’t touch that file it will connect just fine. You didn’t change the database name, only added your WordPress tables to your current DB.

By: SoCal Dave L

SoCal Dave L — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:03:42 +0000

Nice step by step tutorial but…

1. What’s Fantastico? I’m assuming it’s something specific to your hosting provider’s cPanel setup.

2. Once you import your SQL code, aren’t there other specific changes that you need to make such as updating the location of the SQL server? That is unless you’re set to localhost for both installations.