Migrating Wordpress Cloudways to Cloudron

[fatclick]

Can someone please let me know what is the best way to migrate wordpress from Cloudways to Cloudron with all the plugins and settings intact.

Many thanks!

[oj]

I too need to migrate 6 highly customised Wordpress sites built with 6 different themes/ pagebuilders from Cloudways to Cloudron. Petrified!!!

A guide on how to migrate themes + plugins + content + media + javascript/css customisations + settings + Google Analytics will be highly appreciated!

[marcusquinn]

This has always worked well enough for me:

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/

I had issues with this but comes well reviewed:

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

Search for nulled versions if you need a cheaper way to get their Pro versions and can't justify the cost. Otherwise, support developers that make your life easier.

[oj]

@marcusquinn
https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/
This worked really well on my first migration...just one accessibilty-linked issue to resolve.

Thank you very much...this is a wonderfully helpful community!

[nebulon]

@oj thanks for sharing the feedback, surely helpful for others to come. Wordpress migration is always a picky topic.

[martinkbs]

Hi guys,

The fastest way to migrate any WordPress installation to Cloudron is very simple:

1. Export the /wp-content/ folder on the origin server to a wp-content.zip file
2. Export the database on the source server to a .sql file. In phpmyadmin, select all the tables, and export to bbdd.sql
3. Create a clean install of WordPress on the target Cloudron
4. Once created, go to the file manager of the Cloudron WordPress installation and into the /public/ folder:

• upload the wp-content.zip file
• delete existing /wp-content/ folder
• unzip the file wp-content.zip
• change ownership to www-data from /wp-content/ folder which has been unzipped

5. Finally, upload the .sql file of the database from step 2 to the path /app/data/

After this, all that remains is to migrate the database. To do this, go to the application console in Cloudron. Once in it, you just have to type:

cd ..

cd data

wp db reset

wp db import bbdd.sql

With this, the migration is complete.

[micmc]

@martinkbs Yep! That's almost as easy as installing and using a plugin as "all in one ... migration", which is great as well.

Andy

[girish]

@martinkbs Great write up. Thank you so much! I made a guide out of your post - https://docs.cloudron.io/guides/migrate-wordpress/

[martinkbs]

@girish Thanks!

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Migrating Wordpress Cloudways to Cloudron:

I made a guide out of your post - https://docs.cloudron.io/guides/migrate-wordpress/

Perhaps mention the All in One Migration plugin there too? I think for lots of people that's actually a much simpler option.

[girish]

@jdaviescoates Possibly.. I expanded the guide to outline both the approaches now.