Jailbreaking WordPress: How to move your site to a new hosting provider

Sometimes you’ve got to break the chains of an old relationship; and you’ve got to pack up all your stuff, and fight over the dog. Hosting is very similar. If you don’t prepare your site, the database, your themes, and plugins for the migration, you can suffer downtime or lose content that you spent years creating. We’ll go through the steps you need to take to make sure your site migrates cleanly and completely the first time so you avoid drama and downtime.