Dragon Migrate

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

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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 database archive, ready to import on another site.

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

Automatic backups with a checkbox-confirmed 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

Guides

Put Dragon Migrate to work

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

Migrations

How to migrate WordPress to a new domain without breaking page builders

Move a WordPress site to a new domain with a serialization-safe search and replace, so Elementor, widgets and plugin settings survive the change.

6 min readRead

Migrations

Moving WordPress to a new host: a cutover checklist that loses nothing

A step-by-step plan for moving a WordPress site to a new hosting provider: staging on the new server, a clean database transfer, DNS cutover and rollback.

5 min readRead

Requirements

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

Changelog

v1.0.16

Clearer help about full-site archives, and the Pro tab and upgrade prompts are gone. • The Archive tab and the FAQ now say plainly what a full-site archive is: a zip you download and keep. To move a site with one, unzip it, upload the uploads, themes and plugins folders over SFTP, and import the database.sql.gz file from the Import tab. Dragon Migrate does not unpack or restore the files itself. • The Pro tab, the "Upgrade to Pro" link on the Plugins screen and the upgrade note on the plugin's screens have been removed. • Exports, imports, backups, archives and search and replace work exactly as before.

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