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Upload your WordPress export. A dry run shows exactly what will be imported, what cannot be, and which addresses change โ€” before anything is created.

How it works

  1. In WordPress, Tools โ†’ Export โ†’ All content.
  2. Upload the file in your panel. The dry run changes nothing and reports counts, unsupported blocks and shortcodes, media size against your storage, address changes and a sample of converted stories.
  3. Start the import. It can be paused and resumed and never creates duplicates.
  4. Just before you switch your domain, export again and upload: only what changed is updated; stories you edited on the new platform are never overwritten.
  5. Switch DNS. Old links keep working through permanent (301) redirects.

What is kept

  • Published posts with their original publication and modification dates; drafts as drafts.
  • Categories (including sub-categories), tags and author names.
  • Featured images, attachments, galleries, captions and alt text; YouTube and Vimeo embeds.
  • Internal links, rewritten to the new addresses.
  • Old addresses: dated permalinks, ?p=123 links, category, tag and author archives and the feed address redirect to the new pages.

What is not

  • WordPress comments are counted in the report but not imported.
  • WordPress users become author profiles; nobody gets a login automatically and password hashes are never imported.
  • Page-builder layouts (Elementor and similar) and plugin blocks: their text is kept, their layout is not. Every case is listed in the report.
  • Images hosted on other websites are not copied.

Redirects keep old links working. No migration can guarantee unchanged search rankings or traffic; we do not promise that. Your WordPress site is never modified or deleted.

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