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Discussion on: Useful Tools and Thoughts for Migrating WordPress Content and Configuration

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Ingo Steinke, web developer

Updated the post adding a disclaimer so that people rather use a commercial tool for migrating large or complicated sites, unless, like me in this case, you have nothing but a small, manageable amount of data and configuration and nothing to lose on the target system.

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Ingo Steinke, web developer

The quickest way with third-party free(mium) tools: restoring and UpdraftPlus backup to another existing WP instance (by shared cloud storage or manual bulk file upload) will detect and recommend migration which will even change admin user logins! Premium version has more configuration options.