Podcast Episode

040 – Transfer WordPress Website Hosting

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Elegant Themes

FooBar Replacement
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Transferring to Another Hosting Company

  1. Pick new hosting company yourwebsiteengineer.com/hosting
  2. Sign up for a new account if you use green geeks use TODAYOFFER
  3. You will get a confirmation email with:
    Username
    Password
    Server Name
    Server IP
  4. With this information you can now log into your cPanel account
  5. Use either softalicious or fantastical to do a one click installation
  6. Step through the whole process
  7. Log into phpmyAdmin
  8. Go to database choose wp-options
  9. Edit first row (site name) to: http://ip.address.here/~username
  10. Login to dashboard at: http://ip.address.here/~username/wp-login.php

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