What is the best process for moving a Wordpress install from dev.site to httpdocs/?

[Cyberchute]

What is the best process for moving a Wordpress install from dev.site to httpdocs/?

We start with cleaning the target directory (httpdocs) and installing a clean Wordpress, then going to the DEV.website and removing the dev. from the General Settings.

From there we seem to be fighting to get Plesk to see things where we need it to see them. Something in Onyx is different than what

 

[Brujo]

Perhaps this would be interessting for you if you have the wordpress extension installed
Plesk WordPress Toolkit Course - Part 1 - Creating a Website [Video]
Plesk WordPress Toolkit Course - Part 3: Staging and Production
Importing Websites

Manualy you also can use the export & import function from Wordpress itself
1. Log in to your dev WordPress site.
2. Click “Tools” and click “Export” from the menu.
3. Select the “All Content” option, then click “Download Export"

 

[TomBoB]

We use external development server - just to mention it.
Am using the (paid) Wordpress Duplicator plugin. Works a charm!

target site:
empty httpdocs folder.
create new empty database. make note of database name, user, pw

dev site:
load duplicator, choose (create new) FTP storage. Point to httpdocs folder of target site.
run duplicator.

back to target site:
check in FTP: there are now two files. take note (copy name) of duplicator-created-file.php
in browser, go to targetsite.tld/duplicator-created-file.php
when asked, choose "new database" and enter info you took notes of when creating new database.

Done.

If there is still a glitch (extremely rare), load "better search replace" plugin and adjust/replace what's needed

Cheers,
Tom

 

[Aleksey Filatev]

What is the best process for moving a Wordpress install from dev.site to httpdocs/?

We start with cleaning the target directory (httpdocs) and installing a clean Wordpress, then going to the DEV.website and removing the dev. from the General Settings.

From there we seem to be fighting to get Plesk to see things where we need it to see them. Something in Onyx is different than what

The most easiest way to move your WordPress site from one domain to another withing the same Plesk server - using the cloning feature of WordPress Toolkit: WordPress Toolkit.

For more generic case, if you need to move a common web-site from any server into Plesk, we have the site importing tool: Importing Websites. It allow you to move WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, PrestaShop or Magento web-sites as is: you just need to specify a source domain name and Site Import Plesk extension make the rest work for you automatically.