Steps:
- Log into the wordpress admin dashboard, click on settings, and update both the “wordpress URL” and the “site URL” with the new domain name. Ex: www.clintlyon.com
- Back up the database either using PHPmyadmin or from a command line type “mysqldump -u -p wordpress > backup.sql” Where wordpress is the name of the database and backup.sql is the name of the output file.
- On the new hosting server you need to execute the backup.sql file on the database server. You will need to know the name of the previous database and either create a new database with the same name, or go into the wp-config.php file and change the database reference with the new database name. You can execute the backup.sql file with either phpmyadmin or a command line.
- Create a new user for the database you just created with the same username and password that’s in the wp-config.php file.
- Copy over all the wordpress files to the new home directory on the new server, once that is done the site should be up and running.
- Download Blue velvet URL Updater and update all image URL’s in the database.