Another project I’m with is considering joining May First. Our current WordPress host is WordPress.com. With the “personal” plan we’re on, they block almost all plugins (including backup and transfer plugins), FTP, and SFTP. They don’t allow upgrading to another plan for just one month. We would have to pay for a year in advance, and then ask for a refund within 14 days and hope they grant it. I asked the AI bot how to transfer the site out, and they said that using Tools/Export would get me the “important” parts of the website, but that there’s no way to access the database. I can export this XML file and the media files, but will that be enough to successfully transfer the site to May First without loss? Or do we have to upgrade plans and get SFTP access? The site is very simple, mostly just pages and posts.
The XML files and media files will get you all of the necessary data to restore your pages and posts into a new site. Importing the xml file is straightforward. Once you have the media files you may want to use sftp to copy the media files into our servers and I think there is an easy way form the command line to to re-import the media.
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