Move WordPress website from x domain to y domain

  • Hi There,

    I wanted a suggestion from this group / community.

    We have a website let’s say https://www.xyz.com & we have planned to revamp the entire website but do not want to work on the live website as we have customers coming on to it.

    Hence we have created a sub-domain on the same server by name https://www.test.xyz.com and copied / replicated the entire website on to that sub-domain and revamped the complete website as of now.

    Now we wanted to move this entire setup (test.xyz.com) to the live website (xyz.com) without loosing any data | with no downtime | without loosing SEO.

    Can you please suggest a best & easiest option to do the same?

    As per my knowledge we can use duplicator plugin & move the website to the live domain. But just wanted to re-check on this here if someone has a better idea.

    Thanks in Advance
    Shashikant

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  • Can you clarify

    (test.xyz.com) to the live website (xyz.com) without loosing any data

    Do you want to not lose data from tex.xzy.com or from xyz.com ?

    with no downtime

    Close to impossible at least for a a few minutes.

    without loosing SEO

    A lot will depend on the structure and content of the new site versus teh old site. If it is 1 for 1 in terms on urls and content then should be good, otherwise you are going to need to map content with 301 redirects

    Thread Starter shashikant91

    (@shashikant91)

    Hi @alanfuller

    Thanks for your quick response.

    Do you want to not lose data from tex.xzy.com or from xyz.com ?

    I actually wish to transfer / move the complete data / content on the test.xyz.com to the live domain xyz.com

    Close to impossible at least for a a few minutes.

    I understand 15-30 minutes should be fine. It also depends on the content size if I am right.

    A lot will depend on the structure and content of the new site versus teh old site. If it is 1 for 1 in terms on urls and content then should be good, otherwise you are going to need to map content with 301 redirects

    Actually we have just revamped the website with look & feel of the current pages & added just a few new pages (around 3-4 that’s it)

    Also we have changed the blog post category permalinks structure – earlier (on the current live website xyz.com it was xyz.com/blog-title) but now one the test domain test.xyz.com we have changed it to test.xyz.com/blog/blog-title

    1. Easy – if you are comfortable with Duplicator use Duplicator
    2. as per 1.
    3. Can you tell me if you type test.xyz.com/blog-title does it end up at test.xyz.com/blog/blog-title if it does then the auto redirect is good enough ( in my opinion )

    Thread Starter shashikant91

    (@shashikant91)

    Hi @alanfuller

    I have already used duplicator while moving the live domain content to the test one and hence I’m familiar with using duplicator.

    But at that point of time test.xyz.com was not having wordpress installed.

    I hope it’s the same process even if we have wp installed on both xyz.com and test.xyz.com

    3. No that doesn’t automatically redirect but goes to 404 page

    Duplicator now checks if you have WP installed, and then asks you to confirm by retyping the archive file name before overwriting the install. It works well, I use it often. That said always make sure you have a backup just in case.

    3 No that doesn’t automatically redirect but goes to 404 page

    Then to ensure minimal SEO impact you will need to set up some redirects

    You cant really redirect everything from xyz.com/ to xyz.com/blog so probably need to redirect a list if you haven’t got hundreds of posts.

    ( there maybe a cleverer way of doing this but I am not certain of one without writing code )

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