Migrations are a bit off-topic, but typically you would set up the new WordPress site locally or as a staging site, meaning it could be on the final server, but you’re using a different URL while you get everything set up. Once you have all the content loaded, all the themes and plugins how you … Read more
Congrats on your first client. I’m glad you are looking around to make sure that you start off on the right foot. Like anything that you start in life, your experience will increase over time and the more you practice. However, we live in a digital age and popular open-source platforms such as WordPress have … Read more
There is no direct way to ‘convert’ an old site. If you did attempt it, there would be much customized programming needed to grab data from the CF pages into the WordPress site. It can be done, but I don’t know if the effort is worth it. It all depends on the site content. If … Read more
It’s easy and possible. all you need to do is export your content from wp.com (wp-admin/tools/export) and import it to your new website (wp-admin/tools/import). That should be all, I would also suggest that you purchase https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ so if a visitor goes to mywebsite.wordpress.com, they get redirected to mywebsite.com
You need the files and a database, so here you are missing the database. follow these steps: http://www.wpexplorer.com/migrating-wordpress-website/
When you moved the site, did you export and then re-import the content? I’m wondering if maybe the custom data just didn’t make it into the live server’s database. The first place to look for whether that’s the case would be either on the post’s edit screen or within the database itself with PHPMyAdmin or … Read more
You can set the domain for the WP install in the config-file wp-config.php and so its easy to set an new domain for a install. define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://www.example.com’); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://www.example.com/blog’); Now use WordPress this domains and the settings in backend was not deciding. But the task after this small change is, that you change the url … Read more
You can read this article about migration in codex. That’s a good start. When migrating there are no special tricks, you just have to upload your files to new location and change some datas in your DB to tell WordPress your website has a new location. Be cautious with those 3 wp options tables which … Read more
If you have access to Cpanel this is what I do. Ensure you have up to date backups of EVERYTHING before attempting to make changes to the database. First if WordPress is installed on your production environment upload your theme files. (sounds like you have done this already) Second go to Cpanel on your Development … Read more
How to migrate, does WordPress hardcode or shortcode image URLs?