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If you have ever wanted to move your Wordpress blog to another host because you have sold it or just wanted a better hosting provider, you may have been put off by not knowing how to do it.
In this tutorial we are going to show you exactly how to do it in 5 easy steps:
1. Download Your Wordpress Files
2. Download Your Database
3. Change The DNS Servers On The Domain Name
4. Create A New MySQL Database And Import The SQL File
5. Upload Your Wordpress Files
So let’s begin with the first step:
Step #1 – Download Your Wordpress Files
This is a very easy step. First you want to create an empty folder on your desktop and name it so that you can remember it. The easiest thing to do is name it after your blog. Next you will login to your Wordpress installation using an FTP program and download all the files and folders to that empty folder:
Step #2 – Download Your Database
Your database has all the information about your blog – the posts, the settings, the users etc. So we need to download it in the correct way. Login to your cPanel of your web host and click on the Fantastico icon: read more..
