Migration and pricing
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Hello, I’m planning for move a site from Dreamhost to WordPress.com. What is the best order to do this in since I have the site at Dreamhost, the DNS at Cloudflare and the domain at Network Solutions and I want to move everything to a WordPress.com Business plan
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Here’s the order I’d go with:
- Spin up the Business plan on a fresh WordPress.com site. The migration tool erases whatever’s on the destination, so if
bioniquest.wordpress.comhas anything you care about, point the migration at a different empty site instead. - Tidy up the Dreamhost side first. Deactivate anything on the incompatible plugins list, update everything to current versions, and note any custom code in
wp-config.phporfunctions.php— those edits don’t come across, so you’ll redo them later via a plugin or child theme. - Use the free managed migration. The WordPress.com team copies the site over while Dreamhost stays live and untouched, and you get an email when it’s done. Two to three business days. There’s a DIY plugin route, but for a site coming off shared hosting with Cloudflare in front, letting the team handle it skips a lot of headaches. Details: https://wordpress.com/support/import/import-an-entire-wordpress-site/
- Test at the temporary
.wordpress.comaddress. Click around, check media, try a form, poke at anything plugin-powered. Catch problems here, before the domain name swings over. - Move the domain name. Transfer it from Network Solutions to WordPress.com. One vendor, one renewal, and the transfer adds a year. Unlock the name at Network Solutions, grab the auth/EPP code, and make sure your WHOIS contact email works.
- Cancel Dreamhost last. Give it a couple of days after the domain name flips, confirm everything still looks right and export one final backup.
- Spin up the Business plan on a fresh WordPress.com site. The migration tool erases whatever’s on the destination, so if
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