Overview
This article lists multiple options to migrate a WordPress site from another host to a DreamPress plan.
How to migrate to DreamPress
You can use any of the following options to migrate your WordPress website.
Option 1 — Professional Services migration
DreamHost's Professional Services team is able to transfer your site for free. If you would like DreamHost to move forward with migrating your site to DreamPress, please contact support with the domain name you wish to migrate:
- If you are a current DreamHost customer, click here to contact support.
- If you have not yet signed up, click here to contact the DreamHost support team.
A DreamHost Professional Services team member will then respond to help get you started.
Option 2 — DreamHost Automated Migration Plugin
DreamHost has partnered with the makers of BlogVault to provide the DreamHost Automated Migration Plugin, a free WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly migrate your WordPress site to DreamPress, on your own. See this article for more information.
This option cannot be used when migrating to a temporary domain name such as *.dreamhosters.com or *.dream.press. See the Option 4 section below for these instructions.
Option 3 — Manual migration
Follow the instructions in this article if you prefer to migrate your WordPress site manually to DreamPress.
Option 4 — Migrating to a temporary domain
Follow the instructions in this article to migrate to a temporary dream.press domain. Once this is configured and functioning as intended, you can then change the name to your actual website name.
Troubleshooting the new import
If your site does not display as it should, you may need to flush the object cache and/or the DreamPress cache. See this article for instructions on flushing the cache in the dashboard.
You can also flush the cache via SSH:
Flush the DreamPress cache for all of your theme files
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[server]$ curl -X PURGE -D - https://example.com/wp-content/themes/*
(DreamPress Pro only) Flush the object cache using the WordPress wp-cli
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[server]$ wp cache flush