Chapter 7: Backing Up, Packing Up, and Moving to a New Host

In This Chapter

• Moving to WordPress from a different platform
• Database backup management
• Backing up plugins and themes
• Storing images and media files
• Exporting data from WordPress
• Using plugins to make backups and moving easier

As a WordPress Web site owner, you may need to move your site to a different home on the Web; either to a new Web host or into a different account on your current hosting account. Or maybe you're an owner who needs to move your site right now.

This chapter covers the best way to migrate a blog that exists within a different blogging platform (like Movable Type or TypePad) to WordPress. This chapter also takes you through how to back up your WordPress files, data, and content and move them to a new hosting provider, or different domain.