If you already have a working WordPress site that you wish to move to eQPress, the first thing you need to do is sign up with Deflect (signup as a non-profit if you are eligible) and specify that you would like to move your existing website to eQPress. It would be also helpful to know if your WordPress instance contains a single website or is a multi-site with subdomains (https://sub.example.com) or subdirectories (https://example.com/sub).
This post contains information for migrating your website to eQPress. If you need any help, don’t hesitate to ask for our support.
What we need #
- Schedule a 1 to 2 day block (from Monday till Friday) when no updates are happening on your site.
- We need a complete backup of your full wordpress directory (all files and folders including uploads, themes, plugins).
- We need an entire SQL database dump (not just an XML/WXR dump)
- What is your current version of wordpress. Is it multi-site?
- Let us know if you have any special setup that you know of. In our test we will make sure these special setup features work before we put site live.
- During the migration, you will need to make sure that no modification occurs on your website, to avoid data loss during the migration to our servers.
Limitations #
Please keep all the eQPress limitations in mind!
