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WordPress Local WordPress Development Local WordPress Development Migrating WordPress from Local to Live Server

Posted by Robert Bulmer
Robert Bulmer
Courses Plus Student 815 Points

Can you provide me a step by step instructions how to get my already live wordpress page on mamp through filezilla?

I am taking the wordpress track, to help me build my website. You have walked me through installing a local server, and how to get the local wp site to a live site. I am having a very difficult time understanding how to do the reverse process in order to get my site I already started from live status to my local server.

1 Answer

Rich Salvucci
Rich Salvucci
16,716 Points
Rich Salvucci
Rich Salvucci
16,716 Points

Hi Robert,

With your site running locally there are a few steps you will need to take to migrate it to the server.

  1. In your phpmyadmin in MAMP export your database. http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-make-a-wordpress-database-backup-manually/

  2. Make sure to create a new database on your server in phpmyadmin. Remember to write down the database name, user name and password. You will also need to know the server name. The server name is dependent on where it is hosted many are 'localhost'.

  3. Import your database tables into the new database on your server. http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-how-to-restore-wordpress-from-backup/#restoreusingphpmyadmin

  4. Copy the files including all of the WordPress files onto your the root level of the server or public_html file. The location is dependent on the server.

  5. Update your wp-config.php with the new database credentials.

Your site should now be live and the same as what you were running in MAMP.

There are also many plugins, both paid and free that make the process much more automated. I hope this answers your question.

-Rich