Move Your WordPress Blog to a New Host in 7 Easy Steps
Some of you might have seen the announcement, but for those of you who haven’t, Cryptic Clarity moved and has a new home (plus a brand new forum!) If you’re using the latest version of WordPress (2.2.x) and are planning to move your blog to a new host, here’s what I did in 7 simple steps to help you along the way. All the tutorials I’ve found require a manual backup of your MySQL database before the move. This tutorial will show you how to backup your blogs and comments effortlessly without having to tinker with the MySQL database. The following is assumed in our example:
- Your account with your old host is still active.
- You own the domain for your blog: www.your-blog.net
- Root directory for your current blog installation: /wordpress
- You know the DNS for your new host: ns1.new-server.com, ns2.new-server.com
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