Easy WP Transfer

By Bonnie Stone

Do you need to transfer your WordPress website to a new hosting company but can't figure out how to do it yourself?  

Are you concerned with paying some 'Internet guru' money to transfer your WordPress website, only to discover that it isn't working properly after the transfer and - even worse - that your private, confidential information and passwords have been stolen?

Would you rather not trust the customer care department at your hosting company to transfer your money-making website to its new location?

In Easy WP Transfer you will learn the step-by-step instructions with complete illustrations and screen shots that show you just how easy it is to do your own website transfer.  

The topics covered in this book include:

Tools You Will Need To Transfer And Migrate Your WordPress Website
Step 1 - Create A New Folder On Your Desktop
Step 2 - Install Your Database Download Plugin
Step 3 - FTP Log In To Your Current WordPress Website
Step 4 - Change Your DNS Information
Step 5 - Access Your New cPanel
Step 6 - FTP Log In To Your New WordPress Website
Step 7 - Uploading Your Database To Your New Website Host
Step 8 - Return To Your New WordPress Website Dashboard
Step 9 - Visit Your Website On Your New Host
Step 10 - Bonus: How To Transfer And Migrate Subdomains

Why pay your hard-earned money to somebody else when you can quickly and easily retain total control over the process, and save time and money as well!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bonnie Stone
• Release date: Aug 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781507043844

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Introduction

A while back I started thinking about transferring (also called migrating) my WordPress websites to another hosting company.

Lately the service from my current host, well, pretty much sucked . . . The load times were getting slower and slower on the front end, accessing the WP admin panel on the back end was taking over a minute or more from the time I logged in to the time the dashboard page loaded, and every now and then I would get some type of 'error' message and a page would not load at all!

The problems were getting worse and worse, and I figured if this was happening to me during the occasional times I logged onto my site, what was happening to my normal traffic . . . to my visitors who tried to come to my sites day in and day out?

So I started looking for a way to quickly and easily transfer my WordPress websites to a new hosting ISP.  Over a couple of years I had built about 50 sites and I soon discovered that transferring all of these was going to be an expensive thing to do.

Many hosting companies wanted to charge me around $200 for the work, due to the number of sites that I had.  There were a couple of plugins on the market, but those were going to run me over $100 as well.  Now, I am not cheap when it comes to my internet marketing work . . . but I also don't like to spend money when I don't have to.

I mean seriously, how difficult could it be to transfer my WP site files to another hosting company?  If somebody else could do it, I could do it too . . . So I started looking around.

Surprisingly, there was