Moving one webpage to a different website

  • Hi.

    My old website is at mbwoodcraft.co.uk and we have a shop on it. This website has been done by someone else previously, so they have done the shop on wordpress. We are changing our look and our website, however we have a lot of good traffic coming from the shop page. So, is there a way to transfer the shop page to our current new page at mbwoodcraft.com?

    Thank you in advance

    Anita

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  • I do things like that by having the two sites side-by-side in browser tabs and using copy-and-paste from one to the other. However, you might also have to upload any media needed for the page. For doing that, I usually use FTP and FileZilla to do the upload, then use the Add From Server plugin to register the uploads in the Media Library (using “Current Time” and not “File Time”). After that, it usually does not take long to edit the media links on the page if you do not want it to continue getting its media from the other site or if you are using a gallery plugin.

    Usually I start with WordPress Importer, then I copy files via FTP and eventually modify links directly in the database tables. Problems arise with plugins, as leejosepho states, it can take long to transfer items and options, data may be disrupted. The shop website probably uses plugins such as woocommerce, so be careful, eventually contact the plugin developer.
    Another problem is that if you jump from one domain to the other, you may lose some of previous traffic. Make things happen gradually, drive traffic from the old to the new website, but don’t dismiss the old one abruptly.

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