How To Backup Or Clone Your WordPress Website Using Bluehost cPanel

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This tutorial will show you how to manually backup or clone your WordPress website or blog. This is done by using Bluehost Cpanel - File Manager and PHPMyAdmin.

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[bilalarshad]

I was stuck to move wordpress website since days when i saw this video i transfer my web to my new domain with 15 mins
Thanks for making this video to help us ... great video by you...
This is my very first comment in 6 years and get great help from you

[exclusivelyone]

Thank you so much! Tried to clone the site with a plug-in and got stuck between FTP users and hosts...this was so much easier! Much appreciated!

[houssamb]

Thanks! That still worked for me in 2020. I just needed to manually edit the site link from settings in the database at the end.

[upcomingMiilonaire]

Thanks Michelle. this is gem of a video. Loved it.

[johna]

Great video!! I copied and pasted the shortcut you have listed above. There are 3 /// in the url. The clone wasn't working until I changed it to 2 //. It works

[dawndoe]

Hi Michelle!

If I just want a back-up of my site to protect me from losing info when I upgrade Wordpress, do I just download the zip and the sql and save those? And if my site does crash, then I can upload those files for a full restore? Is that how it works? I don't want to create a 2nd site, but just have the files on hand.

Thanks,

Dawn

[surreydj]

Hi Michelle, than you so much for your video it has helped alot! I am however having problems I am following all the steps in your video and 2 of the 3 sites I keep trying to clone looses all the links and comes up with 404 error the requested url was not found on this server. Also when I create new pages it comes up with 404 page not found when you try and view the pages. I have tryed to repeated the step 3 times on each site with no luck. Can you help please? Thanks!

[DelosWait]

Watching this video now and I'm on the part of "Why would you want to do this?" My reason, and what I was searching for, is so I can redesign my site without messing up my current website.. Once I get the redesign done, I'll then replace files. Is this a good way to do that??

Thanks

[zsigmondgaborseres]

Very useful video, thanks for you create it! I could do the second blog on the same account. Thanks a lot again! :)

[captaincastile]

Michelle, as regards Cedric and his rude comment, I love your voice. You might consider narrating books; children's books in particular. You're very easy to listen to.

Thanks very much for this great tutorial. I tried about a dozen others, plugins and all, until I found yours - the ONE that works. I'm very grateful that you have taken the time to share your knowledge. I'm still learning, so I'll subscribe and I'll be back.

Just a thought: On the problem with large websites, you might consider breaking it up into two or three zip files. As long as you install all of them on the new site, it shouldn't make any difference; right?  Thanks again.

[roadrunner]

Just out of curiosity, did you lose any of your settings, images, etc. during the change?

[gagnonorama]

It worked and it was easy! Thank you! 

[couponersmoney]

Hi Michelle, I've purchased a new domain and am in the process of transferring my old site. Does your information still hold true for 2016?

[surreydj]

Thank you so much! This worked a treat! :D

[upcomingMiilonaire]

hi michele, though the website has been clone i wanted to update some of my content, when i uploaded a new image in media library it simply shows up as a broken file with the thumbnail of corrupted file. do you know what could be the reason for that and how to get rid of that.

thanks

[trafficmonsoonpro]

How do I access my wordpress admin from my cpanel?

For example if I forget my WP password or even what email it is linked to (and I cant use the 'forgot password' option) but I have the WP website installed in my cpanel.

How would I reset administrator login details?

[canadianginsengfarm]

Dear Michelle,

I really appreciate your step-by-step video, very clear and works perfectly for me, saving me a lot of time.

I get a question here and hope you can share your advice:
Following your approach, I "cloned" my first website "aaa.com" to "bbb.com". Now when I modify a page on "bbb.com",   identical change is automatically made to "aaa.com". Is there any way that I can separte the two websites from each other... so I can make slight changes to "bbb.com" for different purpose while keep "aaa.com" unchanged?

Kindly,
Sunyear Watson Wu
Toronto, Canada

[oksnaoks]

Try to change your permalinks into a default postname. If this will not work try disabling the plugins one by one to check what plugins might cause the error. Hope this will help. Try it.

[adamr]

Hi Michelle, thank you for your video its been really helpful, however I cannot seem to login to the cloned website I have tried to edit the username and password in the my sql database section but it didnt work. Is there anything else that you could suggest? Thanks :D

[gsmmarket]

I hate your voice but your video is pretty helpful ..