Comments on: How to Transfer a WordPress Blog From One Server or Host to Another

By: Ryan Kazinec

Ryan Kazinec — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:16:05 +0000

You are very welcome.

By: john bulera

john bulera — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:08:34 +0000

This is utterlyinformational, very indepth, thank you.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:06:15 +0000

You are very welcome! I hope the transfer goes smoothly.

By: pradeepf

pradeepf — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:48:41 +0000

thank you for the guide,i am moving my website to a new server and i am following the steps in the guide !!

By: Ryan Kazinec

Ryan Kazinec — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:38:03 +0000

Vadakkus, I'm sorry you're having issues with the transfer. To answer your question, PhpMyAdmin is a piece of software that adds a graphic user interface (GUI) to the management of a websites database. It's a very common program that is included with a lot of hosting packages. PhpMyAdmin's Website However, even if your host doesn't have PhpMyAdmin there is usually if not always some other type of database management utility although they are not commonly anywhere as powerful and well designed as PhpMyAdmin. Hope this helps.
To answer a couple of your other indirect questions.
.htaccess is s file that can be used with Apache based web servers and is VERY powerful but is equally as complicated. Even the smallest error in this file can render your website useless until corrected.
ftp upload / download is a file transfer protocol which is a fancy way of saying you can connect to a remote server (the server or host where your websites files are located) from your home computer or personal device and add, delete, download, or edit the content from the remote server. FileZilla is a very popular and free ftp program.
Transferring Wordpress while not too difficult when you are a tech person can be a bit daunting for non-techies. I wish you the best and let me know if I can help with anything else.

By: vadakkus

vadakkus — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:58:44 +0000

I have a very important question.

What is a PhpMyAdmin?

Your efforts are commendable, but I tried everything to move my site from one to another. As a very very non-techie guy, I was totally unable to. So had to stick with the old provider (The hosting companies don’t care about helping). Everyone throws around terms like phpmyadmin, htaccess, ftp upload/download as if people know what they all are by default. Sad that you never find help when you need it.

Nice writeup though. I like your style of writing.

By: J. Doe

J. Doe — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:21:49 +0000

Thanks for this infomation. But please tell me what if we have blogger blog and want to shift in wordpress. Without effecting seo

By: Rishi

Rishi — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:41:38 +0000

Thanks.. this really helped me to transfer my wp files from old host to new host. Thanks for sharing nice tips.

By: Marian

Marian — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:49:20 +0000

Great, that was the only tutorial that helped transfer my wordpress site without a single glitch – Thanks a lot

By: admin

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:18:44 +0000

I’ll look into adding to this tutorial tomorrow explaining this in more detail but it basically works in a similar fashion as Windows explorer.

A couple of key notes:

First, install filezilla client.

Second, acquire the ftp information needed for your server from your new host. This will include the ip address, port, and password.

This will give you access to your new hosts file structure and then it’s as simple as copying the file over. However, copying files in this fashion will take a great deal of time, so be patient. I’ll look into providing more detail tomorrow. Hope this helps.