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Last updated by Mihai Apetrei 1 year, 8 months ago.

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October 6, 2023 at 9:36 am #14526051

kevinL-39

I plan to migrate the hosting of my site (currently on Bluehost) to Siteground using Siteground migrator plugin and would like to know what steps I need to take to ensure WPML plugin and translations will work without any issues either before or after migration of the website as a temporary domain name will be used before transferring the domain over to the new host.
October 6, 2023 at 8:14 pm #14531029

Mihai Apetrei
WPML Supporter since 03/2018

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Europe/Bucharest (GMT+03:00)

Hi there.

I am not sure how the siteground migrator plugin works.

For migrating your site between domains, our recommendation is that you use a plugin like "Duplicator":
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

Documentation can be found here:
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Here is a small tutorial on how to use Duplicator:
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After you migrate your site to the new domain, you will just need to go to WPML.org > Account > Sites (https://wpml.org/account/sites) > remove the old key (dev key) that you were using on the other domain, and generate a new key for the new domain (production key).

After that, go back to the newly migrated website backend > Plugins > Add new > Commercial and register WPML with the new key (you might need to click "Unregister" first).

I hope that you will find this information helpful!

PS: In case you encounter any specific issues, please do not hesitate to open one new ticket per unique issue, so that we can properly investigate each case.

Kind regards,
Mihai Apetrei