Migrating a site

  • I have a site, lets call it my-site.co.uk that is currently hosted else where and is not a wordpress site.

    I am planning on creating a new wordpress site with a new hosting provider, I’d like to build the site first and then repoint the domain to the new hoster.

    However, I am worried that the new site will have 100’s of pages and there are lots of internal links.

    Does anyone have any thoughts on things that I need to consider? I am worried that when I change the WordPress settings to the correct website url it will mean that all the internal links will need to be redone.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • You might want to install WordPress on your computer and build it there. Then you can delay on the new hosting until you need it. You can use one of the many migration plugins to move it (with domain name change) from localhost to your domain name once you are ready and get the new hosting. Then just point to the new host.

    There are also plugins that import CSV files (from your old site) and external tools that can generate feeds or scrape static HTML of your old site, if you are needing to reuse some of it.

    There are plugins to help you do a find/replace for those kinds of things, so you don’t need to worry about that. Also, if your new host is a managed host, they might be able to help you using WP CLI to do a nice find/replace for you.

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