Migrating Sites Away From Pressillion

If you’re a web agency or freelancer managing multiple client sites, you may eventually need to move a website away from Pressillion to a different hosting provider. While we’d love to keep your sites forever, we also understand the need for flexibility. That’s why we’ve designed our platform to make migrations simple, fast, and clean.

This guide will walk you through the best practices for migrating a site from Pressillion using plugins or command-line tools. We’ll also provide a few plugin recommendations to make the process smoother.

📚 Table of Contents

• Preparing for Migration
• Recommended Plugins for Migration
• Command-Line Exports (Advanced)
• Tips for Clean Client Handovers
• FAQ: Moving Sites Away from Pressillion
• Sources

🔧 Preparing for Migration

Before you begin any migration, we recommend doing the following to avoid bloat, conflicts, or post-migration issues:

• ✅ Disable any active caching plugins (e.g. WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache)
• ✅ Disable security plugins that may block logins or restrict IPs
• ✅ Remove unused plugins or themes
• ✅ Clear your site’s cache if using a server-side caching layer

🧠 Want a clean start? You can also generate a staging copy first, clean up the site there, and migrate that copy instead.

Pressillion does not block any migration plugins, and your site has full root access, which makes exporting files and databases straightforward.

🔌 Recommended Plugins for Migration

Here are the plugins we see working most reliably for migrating away from Pressillion:

All of these tools are compatible with our environment. If you already have a personal favorite not listed here, it likely works just fine too.

💡 At Pressillion plugin we dont restrict plugins you can use.

🖥️ Command-Line Exports (Advanced)

If you’re comfortable with SSH and WP-CLI, you can use command-line tools for fast, no-plugin migrations:

wp db export /var/www/mysite.sql
zip -r mysite.zip /var/www/html/

This allows full control over what gets packaged and exported. You can then upload it to your new server and run:

wp db import mysite.sql

For detailed guidance, refer to our WP-CLI Migration Guide.

🧹 Tips for Clean Client Handovers

Before delivering the migrated site to your client or importing it into a new host:

• Ensure admin user accounts are relevant and secure
• Remove unused media from /wp-content/uploads
• Double-check permalink settings
• Test for broken links or missing assets
• Backup both original and migrated versions

Pressillion gives you unrestricted access to perform migrations your way – whether plugin-based or manual. Our support team can also provide a temporary SFTP or database dump link on request.

🤔 FAQ: Moving Sites Away from Pressillion

Can I use any migration plugin I want?
Yes – we do not block any plugins, and you have full control of your WordPress installation.

What if I want to migrate manually?
You can do so via FTP and phpMyAdmin or by using SSH and WP-CLI. We provide root access.

Do I need to notify support?
No, but if you’d like help disabling caching or preparing your site, we’re happy to assist.

Will my site stay online during migration?
Yes – we recommend you don’t delete the site from Pressillion until the destination is confirmed live.

Do you offer reverse migrations (back to Pressillion)?
Yes – we help onboard returning customers with fast free migrations.

🔗 Sources

• WordPress.org – Moving WordPress
• WP-CLI Documentation – wp db export
• All-in-One WP Migration Docs

Need help with migrations or thinking of returning to Pressillion? We’re here to help.