Blog Migration

You can move your own blog, or you can hire Good Gallery to move it for you.

We Move Your Blog

Choose the Blog Migration Service and the Good Gallery product team will move your WordPress posts, pages, media, themes, and plugins from your current host to Good Gallery servers.

Move Your Own Blog

You can move your WordPress posts, pages, media, themes, and plugins from your current host to Good Gallery servers on your own.

Note: Moving your blog may take several hours and will require technical competency.

You can move your blog using built-in WordPress tools or you can backup and restore your blog using popular WordPress plugins.

WordPress Tools

If you are moving your blog and your domain is going to be the same, you can try to use the built-in WordPress Import / Export features. There are several websites that document this feature, but WPMU DEV provides a good overview.

WordPress Plugins

Some customers use a popular plugin called UpdraftPlus to move their blog. Although Good Gallery cannot endorse any plugin, UpdraftPlus has worked well for many customers.

If your blog is not live on your own domain, you will need to purchase the UpdraftPlus Migrator Extension ($30). In other words, you will need the UpdraftPlus Migrator Extension if your blog is only available on your temporary URL.

Blog Clean Up

Once your blog is moved, you will want to remove unused pages and posts. You will also want to update the WordPress menu.

Follow these steps to remove a page or post from WordPress:

1. Sign In to your WordPress administrator account.
2. Choose Posts or Pages.
3. Hover your cursor over the appropriate Post or Page.
4. Click the Trash option.

Follow these steps to change your WordPress menu:

1. Sign In to your WordPress administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Appearance menu.
3. Choose Menus.
4. Click the down arrow next to the appropriate Menu item.
5. Click the Remove option or update the URL.
6. Click the Save Menu button.

Other Tips

After restoring your blog, some paths to images and files may be inadvertently set to absolute paths instead of relative paths. In other words, the path to some images might be changed to https://example.goodgallery.com.

After your site is live you can use a plugin called Velvet Blues Update URLs to correct this issue and change all occurrences of example.goodgallery.com to www.example.com.

After installing the plugin, you can go to WordPress > Tools > Update URLs, enter your Good Gallery staging address in the "Old URL" field and your real website address in the "New URL" field. Make sure you select all the options except the "Update ALL GUIDs" setting.

Verify Image Migration

If you use a different method to migrate your blog, before you Go Live with your Good Gallery site, you should check to ensure that your blog images are not orphaned. Although the content may appear correct on your blog, links to your images may be pointing to your old blog location.

When you change your domain name to point to Good Gallery, your images will no longer be available if they are still located on your old server.

To determine if your images were migrated correctly:

1. Access your blog via your Good Gallery address.
2. Right click on a blog image.
3. Select "Open image in new tab" (or the equivalent in your browser).

If the path to the image points to your domain URL instead of your Good Gallery temporary URL, then the images were not migrated. The best plugin for correcting this issue and migrating your images to the Good Gallery server is called Import External Images.

Simply install the plugin and go to WordPress > Media > Import Images and click the Save Changes button. This tool processes 50 posts at a time so you may need to run it multiple times if you have a large blog.