Problems with migration

Hello Carlo,

I would suggest to use this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clone-by-wp-academy/

I’m experiencing problems during a wordpress website migration.

From where (specific path) to where (identical path?), and with the same URL to be used or a different one?

I exported the mysql database from the old installation [to]…the new server, with the same db name, username and password…

If the old and new paths and/or URL are not identical, you need this to update the database if you did not change Dashboard > Settings > General prior to export:

cPanel > phpMyAdmin SQL

note: Edit ‘pref’ (the table prefix in three places below) to your own value ()as in $table_prefix = '???_'; in wp-config.php), and then change ‘http://www.olddomain.com’ and ‘http://www.newdomain.com’ as required (three places each and with no trailing slashes)

UPDATE pref_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://www.olddomain.com', 'http://www.newdomain.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
UPDATE pref_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://www.olddomain.com', 'http://www.newdomain.com');
UPDATE pref_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://www.olddomain.com', 'http://www.newdomain.com');

I also installed plugin updates and the new wordpress version, but the graphic is bad (some people said to me that the css is not loading correctly).

You might have a situation where a plugin or whatever uses “absolute server path” and will need to be uninstalled (not merely deactivated) and then re-installed so it can again find that path.