Hey All,
Just as a bit of feedback on what was causing the issue – it was the Elementor plugin – both sites I was trying to move across had Elementor. One of the sites literally so small it was one page “under construction” – either it didn’t pull the Elementor plugin across as what happened with the one-pager site or it would get stuck in a loop of creating then deleting plugins even after disabling all plugins – I spent 2 days trying to use the plugin with Elementor and in the end, the time investing just wasn’t worth it – so what I ended up having to do was for the major site was to use another plugin for migration which worked brilliantly and all done under 20 mins. Which in hindsight is what I should have done when it first failed – Happy to have just got there in the end.
But if you are having issues and you have Elementor maybe just save yourself some time and use a different migration plugin
