Move your WordPress site with help along the way
Tell us about the site, buy the hosting it will live on, and we copy it into a staging area you review. Pushing the copy live and pointing your domain at it are both your decisions; visitors stay on your old host for as long as your domain points there.
Check the fit
The service suits one WordPress site at a time: a business site, a publication, a project that has to stay up. A freelancer brings selected client sites the same way, one Pressy each.
Useful to tell us
- Where the site is now and how you sign in there: the host, not the password
- Roughly how big it is, or that you do not know
- Whether it takes orders, bookings, memberships or comments
- Whether the domain and email stay where they are
Never send passwords or backup links in the enquiry. After you buy hosting, the request from your Pressy's dashboard asks for a login or a backup link, stored encrypted; a person reviews that request before accepting it, and we destroy the details when the move ends.
Know what you are committing to
- Hosting comes first. A Pressy is bought and running before any staff work starts, and the request is made from its dashboard.
- A request is reviewed before it is accepted. An enquiry or a request reserves no slot and is not a booking.
- Standard moves under 10 GB are free. Larger sites are assessed first and quoted before any work starts, and the quote is agreed with you.
- A declined request does not cancel your hosting. The 30-day refund window in the terms is separate and stays yours to use.
Copy, review, push, switch
Four separate steps, kept apart so you decide when each one happens.
- 01
We copy the source into staging
Your site is copied into your Pressy's staging address. Your current host keeps serving throughout.
- 02
You review the copy
Walk through pages, media, sign-in, forms and links at the staging address. A preview shows the copy; it does not prove live email, payments, integrations or DNS.
- 03
You push it live
From the Staging screen, with a backup of the live Pressy taken first. Pushing replaces this Pressy's live content, so anyone already reaching the Pressy sees the moved site at once. Visitors reach your old host only while your domain points there.
- 04
You point your domain at it
Change the web records at your registrar, or connect a domain bought here, while your mail records stay as they are. Keep the old host until you have checked the switched site.
What needs separate attention
Email hosting. We do not host mail; your mailboxes stay with their provider and their DNS records are left alone.
Domain registration and transfer. Moving hosting does not move the domain. Connecting a domain you own is free; transferring or buying one is a separate purchase.
Sites that take orders, bookings, memberships or comments. A copy is a moment in time, so we agree a final copy and a switch plan with you rather than promising continuous synchronisation.
Before you switch
- The home page and your key pages load
- You can sign in to WordPress
- Forms send and images show
- Redirects and permalinks behave
- Integrations, payments and email are tested on the live address, not the preview
Two ways to start
Ask about fit first if you are unsure. If you already have a Pressy, the request is made from its Migration screen.