{"id":24282,"date":"2022-02-02T14:28:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/how-to-migrate-your-wordpress-website-with-all-in-one-plugin\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:12:25","slug":"how-to-migrate-your-wordpress-website-with-all-in-one-plugin","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/how-to-migrate-your-wordpress-website-with-all-in-one-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to migrate your WordPress website with All-in-One plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">All-in-One WP Migration plugin exports your current WordPress website into a backup \u2014 an archive file with the .wpress extension, which then you can import in any WordPress site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">The plugin is a convenient solution for keeping regular backups of your website(s) for many purposes or just transfer website from one domain to another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">All-in-One WP Migration appears on your WordPress dashboard left panel when successfully installed, as well as in the list of plugins:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.12s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; color: #e36f3c;\" href=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/all-in-one-wp-migration-installed.png\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dii aligncenter wp-image-2136\" style=\"border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/all-in-one-wp-migration-installed-300x167.png\" alt=\"All-in-One WP Migration appears on your WordPress dashboard\" width=\"641\" height=\"357\" data-fr-image-pasted=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>This tutorial contains details about:<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 80px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; list-style-type: square; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px;\">All-in-One WP Migration Backups Page<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px;\">Export Using All-in-One WP Migration tool<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px;\">Import Using All-in-One WP Migration tool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 18px; margin: 13px 0px 20px; color: #363d40; font-weight: 600; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">1. All-in-One WP Migration Backups Page<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Backups page is accessible through the Backups option in the plugin menu:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.12s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; color: #e36f3c;\" href=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/all-in-one-wp-migration-backups-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dii aligncenter wp-image-2171\" style=\"border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/all-in-one-wp-migration-backups-1-300x156.png\" alt=\"All-in-One WP Migration Backups\" width=\"475\" height=\"247\" data-fr-image-pasted=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Backups page shows the content of \u2018ai1wm-backups\u2019 folder in \u2018\/wordpress\/wp-content\/ai1wm-backups\u2019. All-in-One WP Migration tool automatically creates the folder after installation. If the plugin does not have sufficient permissions to create it, it will output this notice to the screen:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><em>\u201cAll-in-One WP Migration is not able to create [your-path-to-wordpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/ai1wm-backups] folder. You will need to create this folder and grant it read\/write\/execute permissions (0777) for the All in One WP Migration plugin to function properly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">This means that you will need to create the folder manually and provide (0777) permissions for it by yourself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u2018ai1wm-backups\u2019 keeps backups on your server\/local space. The files have extension \u2018.wpress\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.12s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; color: #e36f3c;\" href=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/backup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dii aligncenter wp-image-2477 size-large\" style=\"border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/backup-1024x482.png\" alt=\"All-in-One WP Migration Backups Listed\" width=\"700\" height=\"329\" data-fr-image-pasted=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Your latest backup will be at the top of the list as the creation time places the order of backups. Names will be generated using the logic \u201c[your-wordpress-site-name]-YearMonthDate-HourMinuteSecond\u201d at the moment of the backup creation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Creating a backup and keeping it inside this folder initializes when choosing option \u2018File\u2019 from the Export menu, described in Step 2 of this guide. You can also copy and paste backups inside \u2018ai1wm-backups\u2019 folder via a local file manager or FTP\/SFTP application. This page will then also list it. Please note that if you put files with extensions besides \u2018.wpress\u2019, they will not appear on the list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">How to label backups:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.12s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; color: #e36f3c;\" href=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/add-lables-on-backup.png\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dii aligncenter wp-image-3929\" style=\"border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: 442px;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/add-lables-on-backup.png\" alt=\"How to label backups in All-in-One WP Migration\" width=\"865\" height=\"732\" data-fr-image-pasted=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">For each of the files on Backups page, you have three available options: Download, Restore, and Delete:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Option \u201cDownload\u201d allows you to download the selected backup to your computer. If you use localhost, the file will save to your downloads directory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.12s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; color: #e36f3c;\" href=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Download-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dii aligncenter wp-image-2478 size-large\" style=\"border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Download--1024x478.png\" alt=\"How to download backups in All-in-one WP Migration\" width=\"700\" height=\"327\" data-fr-image-pasted=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Option \u201cRestore\u201d will start the process of importing the selected backup into your current WordPress site:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.12s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; color: #e36f3c;\" href=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Restore-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dii aligncenter wp-image-2479 size-large\" style=\"border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Restore--1024x475.png\" alt=\"How to restore backups in All-in-One WP Migration\" width=\"700\" height=\"325\" data-fr-image-pasted=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Option \u201cDelete\u201d will delete the selected backup from the \u2018ai1wm-backups\u2019 folder:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.12s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; color: #e36f3c;\" href=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/delete.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dii aligncenter wp-image-2480 size-large\" style=\"border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/delete-1024x480.png\" alt=\"How to delete a backup in All-in-One WP Migration\" width=\"700\" height=\"328\" data-fr-image-pasted=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">On the bottom of the backups list, you will see a button \u201cCreate Backup\u201d:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.12s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; color: #e36f3c;\" href=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/create-backup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dii aligncenter wp-image-2481 size-large\" style=\"border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/create-backup-1024x476.png\" alt=\"How to create backup in All-in-One WP Migration\" width=\"700\" height=\"325\" data-fr-image-pasted=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">This button provides quick access to export functionality and will take you to the Export page. Process is described in Step 2 of the present guide.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 18px; margin: 13px 0px 20px; color: #363d40; font-weight: 600; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">2. Export Using All-in-One WP Migration<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 16px; margin: 13px 0px 20px; color: #363d40; font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">2.1 Export Additional Settings<\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; 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text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Find <small class=\"ai1wm-query-find-text ai1wm-tooltip\" style=\"font-size: 12px;\" title=\"Search the database for this text\">&lt;text&gt;<\/small> Replace with <small class=\"ai1wm-query-replace-text ai1wm-tooltip\" style=\"font-size: 12px;\" title=\"Replace the database with this text\">&lt;another-text&gt;<\/small> in the database<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">This option searches a website\u2019s database for a text and replaces it with another in all places for as many pairs \u2014 find\/replace \u2014 as you specify. Normal website migration does not recommend using this option because the plugin will handle renaming the site\u2019s elements to the URL that you import to.\u00a0Only people who understand\u00a0WordPress database\u2019s structure should use this advanced feature.\u00a0Please keep in mind that this change may affect your user access details to the site \u2014 be cautious of what you replace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">You can also find some additional options for excluding certain data from your backup under the advanced options menu:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.12s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; color: #e36f3c;\" href=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Advanced-option-free-1.png\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2488 fr-fic fr-dii aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/help.servmask.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Advanced-option-free-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"441\" data-fr-image-pasted=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">The below options should not impact the success of your migration:<br \/>\n\u2013 Do not export spam comments<br \/>\n\u2013 Do not export post revisions<br \/>\n\u2013 Do not export inactive themes*<br \/>\n\u2013 Do not export inactive plugins*<br \/>\n\u2013 Do not export Cache*<br \/>\n*Available with premi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-in-One WP Migration plugin exports your current WordPress website into a backup \u2014 an archive file with the .wpress extension, which then you can import in any WordPress site. 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