Move a great Wordpress site own to Wordpress.com

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I would like some help to move a large 11 year site with 38 Gb storage for wordpress.com. I found some instructions in the official help database, but I’m not sure if we can follow them without losing data.

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  • For every operation you do it is important to have a backup of your database and your application. Having this in hand you will not lose your data if any problem occurs. The only points of attention I see is buying the proper hosting plan and taking care not to compromise your rankings in google (SEO). There are some plugins that can help you in this task.

  • I added another solution, see if it helps you.

  • wordpress has a tool to do this, see: https://codex.wordpress.org/Tools_Import_Screen

  • the site is very large and it is not possible to use the import tool because it gives timeout given the volume of data and since today it is on a shared server and I do not have access to any change of configuration of the same.

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If the website has a gender control panel Cpanel can make a backup through it. In this backup you will have BD, emails and everything included in the public_html folder. Then simply import the backup to the target server and in this case the "Cpanel" will restore the backup.

If the target server does not have a control panel the best is to use mysql in cli mode and import the database there.

For this you need ssh access to the server.

Here is an example of database import:
mysql -h nomedoservidor -u utilizador -p basedados < ficheiro.sql

For all other files (public_html, among others) you can easily download them by FTP.

Another solution:

There is a wordpress plugin that generates a backup file for easily imported in another wordpress installation.

Plugin: All-in-One WP Migration

The operation of the plugin is quite simple, just install the plugin on the site to backup and then create a new wordpress installation on the target server and import the previously generated backup file. It is quite simple, but I think that from a certain amount of information the plugin requires a paid version or something of the genre. Now it will according to your needs check if it is worth buying this version.

I have used this plugin for several sites because it allows you to change a test domain to the final domain, the plugin itself re-writes the urls for the ones you want.

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    I will try the plugin solution and return to give feedback.

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