Reply To: How to migrate files from old site to new site?

• John Huebner

• January 7, 2018 at 12:44 am

When it comes to migrating a site, these are the steps that I take.

1. Download all the files on the site
2. Export the database (using phpMyAdmin)
3. Upload the files to the new site
4. Import to the new database (phpMyAdmin)
5. Modify wp-config.php to point to the new database
6. If needed use this tool to do DB modification if the domain name needs to be changed https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

If you are looking to migrate only a single post type and the images associated with the acf fields of this post type, there isn’t a way to do this easily, it could be impossible.