In theory transferring a WordPress website should be a straightforward process that involves few well-defined steps like: export your database from the old host, import it on the new one, move your files, reconfigure WordPress and change the DNS records. In reality though the migration process has some challenges that, if not addressed properly, may cause serious downtime and data loss. Needless to say how this could affect your business – revenue stream loss and bad reputation being just some of the implications.

I plan to walk the audience of the presentation through the different steps in the migration process with examples how each step can be optimized so that the risks are minimized. The following will be covered in details:

1. How to plan the migration

2. How to perform each step of the real website move, dry run migration

3. How to handle the domain propagation issues once the migration is over

4. What to do if you noticed missing data after the process