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6Mar/100

How to Easily Migrate WordPress to a New Server

Oddly enough, I was having trouble with this because of the way WordPress handles URLs. At first I tried, http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/01/how-to-move-wordpress-blog-to-new-domain-or-location/ which got me on the right track. However, I could not fully use this solution. Since my wordpress needed an upgrade anyways to 2.9.2, I figured I would reinstall.

I did a fresh install of wordpress on my new server, and then found this amazing little feature that wordpress has integrated.

In the WordPress admin panel, there is a Tools menu. Click Tools, then Export and WordPress will export all your posts, comments, and attachments to an XML file! THANK YOU WORDPRESS.

I logged into my new installation of WordPress and clicked Tools and then Import.

All my posts, comments, attachments were migrated!
After this, it was just a matter of logging into MySQL and copying over the users :)

Awesome Night.
We are now theinfiniteloopblog.com :) Enjoy!