Useful Tools and Thoughts for Migrating WordPress Content and Configuration

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Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO enables editors to add relevant meta information that helps search engines and social media sites to find and index their content.

#Online Services #SEO Tools #SEO 12 social mentions

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WebPagetest

We can make a web page test (using a tool like WebPageTest or Google's PageSpeed Insights which is also available as a Lighthouse performance audit in our browsers developer tools) before and after activating performance settings. We should see an improvement, often taking our page from an initial slow score indicated in red to a better score in yellow (or, rarely, especially for minimalist sites avoiding stupid marketing ideas like auto-play video backgrounds, even a green score above 90/100).

#Website Monitoring #Performance Monitoring #Uptime Monitoring 51 social mentions

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FileZilla

If we have access to the file system, we can use an FTP client like Filezilla to download and upload files (using a secure SFTP connection if possible). In most cases we only need to copy the files in the uploads folder. Content text, markup, styles, and configuration should be in the database, and plugins, themes and WordPress core system are a fresh install.

#File Transfer #FTP Client #SSH 80 social mentions