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How to Transfer WordPress blog to Hostgator host
Nowadays, there are hundreds of webhosting providers on the market but their qualities vary considerably. HostGator is the only provider I would gladly recommend to family and friends. It has fast and reliable servers, the professional 24/7 live support. If you are using WordPress and not satisfied with your host quality, you should register and migrate your blog to Hostgator now.
At the moment you can fill in the coupon tek3dhostgator to receive a discount of $9.94 off the package price!
Here is the 3 simple steps from their support portal to transfer your WordPress blog:
1. Backup your WordPress database using phpMyAdmin
First thing first, make a backup of your database using phpMyAdmin. If you don’t have PHPmyadmin installed on your hosting account, you can use mySQLDump from a SSH terminal.Download/Upload all your WordPress files using FTP.
You will need to download ALL your files from your old host and upload them to your new host. This includes files from your themes folder and plugins folder. Make sure you also download any folders which were referenced outside of your blog folder. For example I use a seperate folder called ‘images’ which is located outside of ‘blog’. If I didn’t copy and upload this folder to my new host I would have a lot of broken links to images within my blogpost. This is not a pretty sight.
2. Edit wp-config.php and create a new WordPress database.
You must now edit wp-config.php to include the database settings of your new database.
Once you have edited the file with your new database settings, upload it to the root of your blog folder.
So now everything is set, expect that your new database does not contain any database tables.
3. Import your WordPress blog to your new Database.
You can use either phpMyAdmin to import your database or you can use BigDump. BigDump is the preferred option if you have a large database (10mbs or more). There is a step by step guide on how to use BigDump on their website.
Once you have logged in, you can choose between two methods to complete the import. You can click on ‘SQL’ and run a query or you can use the ‘Import’ link to upload your wordpress.sql file into your database. I recommend using the former as the query can take some time and can sometimes crash your browser. Using the import feature seems to be a lot less strenuous on the browser.
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it’s a great news as hostgator is providing free trial for 1 month as i want to tranfer my blogspot blog to wordpress.
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I am not sure that you can use Hostgator for free in 1 month now. However, you can use my coupon code tek3dhostgator to receive a discount of $9.94. This amount is even more than 1 month fee.
Good luck.