The best way of doing that is actually by just copying the post to your new blog, and on your old blog, add a rel=”canonical” link to that page to your new post’s URL. This will notify Google and other SE’s that you want to have the other, new, page ranking, without actually having to … Read more
Ensure that the NEW site is already running the same Theme, and all appropriate Plugins. Generate your export file from your OLD site, ensuring that you export “all content”. Import the file into the NEW site, ensuring that you enable/check the option to download/import all attachments. (It is on the same import step during which … Read more
Wrangled up some things to check: @otto via comment on this post Look at the login page’s HTML source. Is there anything at all before the initial DOCTYPE line? Even a blank line? If so, then you have some piece of code creating output before the headers are made, in which case this prevents it … Read more
Two possible easy ways to replace Old website URL to New Website URL: 1/ Directly replace in SQL file: Export the database and open SQL file. Manually find and replace old website URL with new website URL. Once replace is done, save and import database again. 2/ Use Migrate DB plugin: Use the third-party WordPress … Read more
Assuming sd1.mysite.com and sd2.mysite.com are single WordPress installs. You can create mysite.com as a WordPress Multisite, you can then export the posts, users, etc and reimport to the new multisite version of sd1 or sd2 using: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-importer/ You will need to include the themes, plugins as well in the new multisite install. If sd1.mysite.com and … Read more
There is extensive question/answers for moving from development to produciton in general Easily Move a WordPress Install from Development to Production? However for your specific question best plugin that I know is commercial BackupBuddy. It packs whole site (including WP itself) and can restore it to different URL.
The Chunk theme is currently under review. It has been set as unapproved by the WordPress.org theme review team. If the author makes the corrections it will be available in the WordPress theme repository.
I’ve written a very simple script that is built to do exactly what you’re talking about. Here’s the basic process you’ll want to follow. On the old server, log-in to PHPmyAdmin and export the database. On the new server, log-in to PHPmyAdmin and create your database. You may need to create a new MySQL user … Read more
In my opinion as long as your needs are exclusively about looks it’s never a good reason to migrate to entirely different code base. The separation of backend code and frontend site is inherently one of the strengths in web development. When you you are a lone developer on own project there are roughly three … Read more
Didn’t try this myself (self-hosted from the start), but this seems fitting guide for your situation: How to Migrate your Blog from WordPress.com to a Personal Domain ( Digital Inspiration )