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How to Migrate Site to Managed GoDaddy WordPress Hosting

Written By escapecreative on Wednesday, Feb 03, 2016 | 09:16 PM

 
In this video, I'll walk you through all the steps required to migrate your website to the managed GoDaddy WordPress Hosting platform. We'll specifically be migrating a website from GoDaddy's cPanel hosting to GoDaddy's WordPress hosting plan. 00:59 - Enter WordPress Admin & FTP info 03:41 - Once migration is finished... 04:38 - Login to your WordPress Admin; TEST TEST TEST - Correct theme is active, and it looks just like your existing site - Your theme options are correct - Your plugins are installed, activated, and working properly - All posts, pages, comments & custom post type content is there 07:02 - Switch from testing domain to your LIVE domain - This example goes from a GoDaddy cPanel site to a GoDaddy managed WordPress site. 08:11 - Release your domain from cPanel 09:20 - Apply your domain to your new WordPress hosting account 12:49 - Confirm that your site is hosted on the new WordPress account 13:39 - What your My Account area will look like 14:02 - Cancel your old hosting account (or let it expire) 16:06 - Delete the migration user from your WordPress Admin Full Article w/ Screenshots: https://wpsmackdown.com/migrate-to-godaddy-wordpress-hosting/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wpsmackdown Subscribe to our Newsletter for hosting deals & coupons: http://eepurl.com/bCkDxb