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Best Migration WordPress Plugins

7 plugins · 4.5M combined installs · 4.7/5 avg rating

Migration plugins facilitate moving a WordPress site from one hosting environment to another — handling the export and import of files, databases, themes, plugins, and configurations as a unified package. They are essential for developers launching client sites from staging to production, users switching hosting providers, or anyone restoring a site from a full backup. The best migration tools handle serialized data correctly, update hard-coded URLs across the database, and manage large sites without hitting PHP memory or execution time limits. Popular plugins in this category — including Duplicator, All-in-One WP Migration, and WP Migrate — also serve as backup solutions, with scheduled exports to cloud storage destinations like Amazon S3, Google Drive, and Dropbox.