Moving your WordPress website to a new domain and host
- Change the WordPress address and Blog address to your new domain, press Save, WordPress will likely have a heart attack but don’t worry this is part of the relocation
- Open File Manager via cPanel or your provided hosting management software and ZIP all the files of your website, move this archive to your new hosting account and extract it using File Manager
- Open PhpMyAdmin via cPanel or your provided hosting management software and explore the wp_options table
- Do a search for “upload_path” within the option_name column of wp_options, update option_value to match your new hosting account path, this will allow WordPress uploads to work with your new hosting account
- Connect to your new website via FTP and chmod the public_html directory to 777, this will allow WordPress to dynamically create new files within the root directory
- Also chmod wp-contents, wp-contents/uploads, wp-contents/plugins to 777, allowing WordPress to save uploaded images, media and plugin files
- Log into your WordPress administration using your new domain
- Open Permalinks within Options and press Save Changs to rebuild your .htaccess file to make Page/Post permalinks work again
Done! You’ve successfully moved your WordPress website to a new domain and new hosting account.

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