How to Export Your WordPress Database for Free with WP Migrate DB

In this video, we cover how to export your WordPress database quickly and safely using WP Migrate DB, which is available for free in the WordPress plugin repository.

Site migrations can be complicated, especially if you’re moving from one environment to another, for example, creating a staging copy of a live site. While it’s pretty straightforward to manually migrate the WordPress media library and site files, migrating the data and updating the data with new URLs can be a painful process, full of opportunities for mistakes.

WP Migrate DB is a free plugin for WordPress that allows you to quickly and safely export your WordPress database, ready to be imported into the new environment or simply kept as a local backup. It takes all the hassle out of migrating your WordPress database. WP Migrate DB works on all hosts and environments and includes features like the ability to find and replace your site URL, even in serialized data, and the option to exclude unnecessary data, like spam comments.

We’ll show you the benefits of using WP Migrate DB versus manually exporting your data and take a look at how fast and straightforward it is to export your database using WP Migrate DB. Then we’ll look at some of the features available in the pro version to make WordPress site migrations even easier.

Video timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
00:54 Why WP Migrate DB?
01:29 Doing an Export
03:07 The PRO Version
03:32 Conclusion

Install WP Migrate DB on your WordPress site today, and export your WordPress database with ease.

Upgrade to WP Migrate DB Pro and quickly migrate your database, media library, themes, and plugins between any WordPress environment.

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[FabianZulianello]

what to do when you get the error: File dump info empty
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Thanks

[MisterK-YT]

I thought you were leaving a link in the description to a video about the import process?

[robertlongoria]

Thanks just what I was liking for. Very clear.I subscribed with bell

[joegood]

I appreciate your efforts but I found the pertinent instructions impossible to follow particularly beginning at 2:32 when you made an inaccurate cut in the video and chopped it in a way that it became impossible to follow especially when you attempt to show what fields to copy (and especially where they're being copyied from) into the fields. I simply could not follow it. Thank you though.

[prashanthbthevar]

export didn't work
the files are not uploaded to the destination file only, this app is simple fake