Jioha Amatokwu

Hello,

A couple of thoughts and questions:

1. Does the new hosting company provide a migration service? I recently finished a website for a client and was surprised to learn that GoDaddy (their new web host) had a migration service. It asked for a few credentials, the current location of the site and did the migration itself. Easy, peasy.

2. Would the native WordPress Import/Export plugin work? On the current site when in the admin panel go to Tools –> Export and select “All content” to create an export file and save a copy to your computer. Then in the new hosting WP installation go to Tools –> Import –> WordPress and click the “Choose a File” button to locate the export file you saved on your computer. Find it, select it and click the “Upload and import” button. You will be taken to another screen to select the author for each post type and there should also be an checkbox to Download all images and attachments (this may or may not do as instructed). When submitted, your site should be copied over from it’s current location. You will have to go throughout the site to make sure each page works as it did on the old site and you will probably have to do some additional configuring to match it.

3. Finally, I would look into a cloning plugins like WP Clone. I don’t have a lot of experience (or flawless success) with them, but it’s worth doing a little online research to see if these are viable options.

Whatever you chose, I would recommend trying to run a backup plugin of the database and files to make sure you have a copy in case something goes wrong. Since you also have FTP access, I would recommend copying over your wp-config.php file and wp-content/ folder for the same reason.

I hope this helps!