Prime Mover

Prime Mover® is a complete WordPress migration solution for moving single-site to a multisite platform and vice versa.

Administrators or Network administrators can use this to migrate WordPress to the following supported modes :

  • Migrate single-site to another server single-site installation and vice versa.
  • Migrate single-site to a multisite subsite installation and vice versa.
  • Migrate multisite subsite to single-site.
  • Migrate multisite subsite to another multisite subsite. (even with different blog IDs).
  • Backup a single site or multisite sub-site so it can be restored at any time.

This can also be used to migrate a single-site installation to another single-site installation or a multisite subsite to another multisite subsite installation.

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News and Updates

General Documentation:

Frequently Asked Questions

Prime Mover Technical Requirements

Complete guide on Prime Mover Licensing

How to migrate your WordPress single-site to another single site

How to migrate your WordPress single-site to multisite sub-site

How to migrate your WordPress multisite sub-site to single-site

How to migrate your WordPress multisite sub-site to another multisite network

Prime Mover single-site and multisite packages

How to get multisite target blog ID ?

Can I change the exporting Blog ID to another site importing blog ID?

Prime Mover User Migration documentation

Using Prime Mover when wp-config.php is not writable

Best practices when migrating large sites with Prime Mover Plugin

FAQ: How to download WPRIME package via other methods?

How to extract WPRIME package manually?

How to migrate very large WordPress sites by parts?

FAQ – How does WordPress multisite migration affects the main site?

FAQ: What is the difference between “Export as subsite backup” and “Export to multisite format?

Prime Mover user adjustment API complete documentation

Using Prime Mover plugin with Bitnami WordPress

How to free up space and deleting unneeded files and backups?

How to cancel ongoing export or import and try again?

Pro Version Documentation

“Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.” when downloading Prime Mover PRO

FAQ – How to activate Prime Mover PRO?

How to activate Prime Mover PRO licenses in some of your WordPress Multisite subsites?

Prime Mover PRO: How to deactivate licenses inside your Freemius account?

How to generate invoice under company name (after purchase)?

Getting Started with Pro Version

How to upgrade your existing PRO plan to higher plan?

How to Enable Encryption Support in Prime Mover Pro version?

Configure Basic Settings in Prime Mover Pro

How to Add and Configure Authorization Keys ?

How to restore backup packages using the new Prime Mover backup management (added in version 1.0.7)

How to Export and Restore using Remote URL feature

Prime Mover Pro Custom Backup Directory

How to exclude plugins in Prime Mover Pro?

How to exclude upload media files in Prime Mover Pro?

How to Test Prime Mover Pro single-site license in WordPress Multisite?

Prime Mover Google Drive Integration

Prime Mover Dropbox integration

How to backup and migrate multisite main site in WordPress?

How to convert WordPress multisite main site into a single site installation?

Solution: 403 Forbidden error after Prime Mover purchase / upgrade

Automatic backup PRO feature documentation

How to enable automatic backup for WordPress multisite and single-site?

How to add custom backup schedules for automatic backup?

How to use external cron service to trigger automatic backups?

How to use your hosting cron to trigger automatic backups?

How to restart the scheduled backup process?

Automatic Backup – Frequently Asked Questions

Troubleshooting guide

Workaround – Unable to install theme or delete plugins after migration from multisite to single-site (standalone)

Troubleshooting: “Unauthorized Download” error when using remote URL PRO feature?

Troubleshooting: Site URL is not defined in this site. Please check your multisite settings

Help! My export and restore is very slow after updating to Prime Mover 1.9.5+

Troubleshooting: Unable to rename tables, please check that your database is not empty or these tables exists

Troubleshooting: Stalled restore or export guide

Troubleshooting: ArchiveIOException – Failed to write to archive stream during Export

Troubleshooting: No packages found

How to troubleshoot corrupted packages?

Export stuck at 0% – Troubleshooting guide

Troubleshooting: mysqli_stmt_get_result() – plugin cannot be activated if this function is missing

How to uninstall Prime Mover plugin?

Post-migration Troubleshooting: Tips and Advice

Runtime error: Mismatch source and target database charset error

Mismatch Import! Error – Troubleshooting and solutions

How to submit debug data to support?

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function is_anonymous() on bool

Prime Mover Pro: Media files NOT encrypted when it should be

Zip failed! Some file paths exceed Windows MAX_PATH limit

How to add default Prime Mover constants to “mu-plugins” directory?

Import / Restoration Hang or Freeze Issue Troubleshooting

I got “Export fails” or “Import Fails” Error – Can you try increasing web server timeout?

cURL error 28: Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds

FAQ – Troubleshoot Slow Uploads on Package restoration on Local / Remote

Runtime error: Theme files missing for export. Check if you have themes activated

Error: Your MySQL server max_allowed_packet size is insufficient

Runtime error: Uncaught TypeError: urldecode(): Argument #1 ($string) must be of type string, array given

Troubleshooting: Invalid Site Details Collection – Plugin activation error

Troubleshooting: Export process fails for site ID if using Cloudflare

Help! I’m not able to login to my site due to insufficient disk space (after creating backup)

Troubleshooting Dropbox integration issues with Prime Mover

How to update Prime Mover PRO to the latest version if you encounter an error?

Troubleshooting: All post and pages are 404 after migration except homepage

Last updated: November 11, 2024