WordPress is a powerful CMS (Content Management System). You can develop the WordPress sites on your local sever like (XAMPP, WAMPP etc.) and can migrate it on your live server easily. If you develop you WordPress sites on local server, that is very helpful to test site changes, theme customization, plugin functionality check and you can develop you overall site on local server. That local server site can be easily migrate on live server. You can do it manually as well as with the help of plugin.
In this blog post, I am going to share you some best plugin which are helpful for site migration. According to plugin features, you can migrate site from local to live, live to local, local to local, live to live, duplicate your site, backup your site and may more. You can find the best and suitable plugin for your need and you can use it.
Here are the list of some very useful plugin to migrate your site.
Duplicator
According to the description of duplicator plugin “Duplicator gives WordPress users the ability to migrate, copy, move or clone a site from one location to another and also serves as a simple backup utility. Duplicator handles both serialized and base64 serialized string replacement. WordPress migration and WordPress backups are easily handled by this plugin.”
This plugin have both free and premium version. Free version is 1+ millions active installs and have very useful features getting 1217(on blog published date) five stars rating. This is one of the very useful plugin to migrate your site.
All-in-One WP Migration
This is another best plugin to migrate your WordPress sites. This plugin is 600,000+ active installs with 2929(Blog Published date) five star rating. This plugin is mobile compatible plugin that you can operate this plugin easily via mobile as well. This plugin exports your WordPress website including the database, media files, plugins and themes with no technical knowledge required. You can upload your site to a different location with a drag and drop in to WordPress.
This plugin have its premium version also and you will get more exciting features on its premium version.
WP Clone by WP Academy
As per the description written on plugin page of WordPress directory, “WP Clone is the easiest, fastest and most secure way to move or copy a WordPress site to another domain or hosting server. You can also use it to move your site to/from local server hosting, to create copies of your site for development or testing purposes, to back up your site, and to install pre-configured versions of WordPress.” This plugin is fast and work pretty well.
UpdraftPlus
This is one of the best plugin with 1+ million active installs for backup and site migration. This plugin also have its premium features with lots of added features like backup, copysite with best support. As per the description mentioned on plugin repository page of WordPress, Updraftplus is simplifies backups (and restoration). Backup into the cloud (Amazon S3 (or compatible), Dropbox, Google Drive, Rackspace Cloud, DreamObjects, FTP, Openstack Swift, UpdraftPlus Vault and email) and restore with a single click. Backups of files and database can have separate schedules. The paid version also backs up to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, SFTP, SCP, and WebDAV.
This above plugin are very helpful for your site migration and backup. First you can use and check the free version and if you satisfied with the free version and need more features which are available on premium version, you can upgrade it on premium version. Free version are totally free and you can get free supports on the support page on WordPress as well. Try the above listed plugin from WordPress repository and make your work fast and easier.