Title: "Clean Install"
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# "Clean Install"

 *  [jaybirdie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaybirdie/)
 * (@jaybirdie)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clean-install/)
 * I just finished moving a new WordPress site from a testing environment to its
   new server and domain, replacing a very awful HTML site in the process. Migrating
   the site was painful and frightening, but I managed to do it.
 * But it got me thinking about another site of mine…this other site will not let
   me upgrade WordPress or plugins without a major fight…usually if I try to upgrade
   a plugin automatically, it’ll delete the old plug in (but not the folder it was
   in) and then the upload will fail, and then I can’t delete the now empty old 
   folder from the server, and it’s a pain. As a result, I don’t tend to upgrades
   very often. It’s lame.
 * So I was thinking, hey, wouldn’t it be great if I could export the contents of
   my site, then wipe the server clean, install a fresh copy of WordPress and import
   the contents of my site to the new installation and live happily ever after?
 * How stupid is this idea, on a scale of 1 to 10?

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