Uploading a WordPress Site
Overview
Documentation of necessary steps for uploading a WordPress site.
Workflow
- Upload the WordPress files
- The optimal way is to put the WordPress directory in a tarball, upload, and extract. This requires SSH on the remote server.
- Take care to include media uploads (
[WP_ROOT]/wp-content/uploads/)
- Export the staging WordPress database.
- PhpMyAdmin on local machine.
- My_WP_Database > Export > Default settings > save as .SQL file
- Import the staging WordPress database.