In theory transferring a WordPress website should be a straightforward process that involves few well-defined steps like: exporting your database from the old place, importing it on the new one, moving your files, reconfiguring WordPress and changing the DNS records. In reality the migration process of an active website has some challenges that, if not addressed properly, may result in downtime and data loss. Needless to say this could affect your business badly – revenue stream loss and bad reputation being just some of the implications.

I plan to walk the audience of the presentation through the different steps in the migration process with examples how each step can be optimised so that the risks of data loss and downtime are minimised.

The following will be covered in details:

1. How to plan the migration, especially when you have to move a complex enterprise site.
2. How to perform each step of the real website move. I will stress on the need and will explain how to test if everything is ok, before changing the DNS settings.
3. How to handle the domain propagation issues as part of the migration.
4. What to do if you noticed missing data after the process.