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Dragon Migrate

Migrate, clone and back up WordPress. Resumable database export and import plus serialization-safe search and replace, finishing on any host.

Export your database with a saved profile and serialization-safe search-replace, so URLs and page-builder content survive a domain change.

Export completes with a downloadable archive — database plus the files you selected — ready to move to another site.

Import a database export back into any site, with the same serialization-safe replacement applied on the way in.

Automatic backups with one-click typed restore, so you can roll back a site to a known-good point in seconds.

Save reusable migration profiles for your common staging-to-production moves — no re-entering settings every time.

Features

What Dragon Migrate does

Repeatable WordPress database migrations. Export, import, back up and search-replace with serialization-safe accuracy, resumable on any host.

Database Export

Streamed, gzipped SQL exports with table selection

Database Import

Resumable imports that pick up where they left off

Serialization-Safe Search & Replace

Handles nested serialization, Gutenberg block attributes and Elementor data correctly

Full-Site Archive

Database plus uploads, themes and plugins in a single zip

Backup & Restore

One-click snapshot before a risky change, and a way back

Dry Run

See exactly what will be replaced before anything is written

Migration Profiles

Save a configuration and re-run it as often as you need

WP-CLI

`wp dragon-migrate export` and `wp dragon-migrate find-replace`

Resumable Everything

Row-offset cursors resume mid-table, even on a two-million-row table

Dragon Migrate Pro

Pro add-on for Dragon Migrate. Push and pull databases and media directly between two WordPress sites.

from £59/year →

Guides

Put Dragon Migrate to work

Step-by-step guides from the team that builds it. All guides

Requirements

  • · WordPress 6.2 or newer
  • · PHP 8.0 or newer
  • · WordPress 6.2+ · PHP 8.0+

Changelog

v1.0.11

A quiet pointer to the Pro add-on: an Upgrade to Pro link on the Plugins screen, a one-line note at the foot of the plugin's screens, and a single dismissible notice once the plugin has done its job. Nothing in the free plugin is locked or changed, and all three disappear when Pro is active. - The Pro tab now links to the Dragon Migrate Pro page.

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