After building a WordPress website, there comes a time when it becomes pretty sizeable after adding content to your blog or perhaps added eCommerce functionality. But as good as the website is, you aren’t satisfied with your web hosting. Maybe things have slowed down because your site has got bigger and your plan is longer viable.
The issue is, moving a WordPress website can be pretty daunting. Luckily though, there has been a significant increase in the number and quality of plugins that can help you undertake this task. What this simply means is that you no longer have to manually move content and a database.
In this blog, we take a look at the best plugins to easily migrate WordPress website. Let’s dive in below:
BackupBuddy
BackupBuddy plugin is primarily sold as a WordPress backup plugin. It claims to have offered protection to close to 1 million websites since 2010 and is brought to you by the ever-reliable ithemes team. Aside from its backup capabilities, the plugin is able to help you easily migrate your WordPress website.
Some of the most notable features from a migration perspective only include full migration, change your domain/URL, URL replacement, and setup a staging site. It makes it to our list of best plugins to easily migrate WordPress website due to the enormous features that potentially save you hours of time.
Migrate Guru
Migrate Guru allows you to move your website from one platform to another with just a few clicks. Powered by the WordPress backup specialists, BlogVault, Migrate Guru works by running your migration through their services.
This distinction means it perfectly copes with large website migrations and all but eliminates the issue of ‘time out’ errors that commonly occur with some migration solutions. It has an additional bonus of being free to use and works well with most hosts.
VaultPress
VaultPress is brough by the company behind WordPress itself, Automattic. This premium backup solution offers some serious peace of mind in the backup department and can be used to migrate your WordPress websites from one host to another.
Before, VaultPress was sold as a standalone product. However, it has now been bundled with the ever-expanding suite of services offered under the Jetpack banner. Jetpack guarantees a range of tools for free including downtime monitoring, brute force protection and more. For backup and migrations, you’ll need to take out a subscription.
