Duplicator Migration Project

Internal Portfolio Project
June – July 2025
Wordpress Migration portfolio project. Duplicator.

Project Overview

This internal migration project involved replicating a complete WooCommerce website from an existing subdomain (lumina-naturals.wpshiftstudio.com) to a newly set up subdomain (migration-duplicator.wpshiftstudio.com) under the same hosting account.

The project was built to demonstrate real-world domain + hosting migration best practices.

Objective

The main goal was to simulate a client scenario where a site needs to be migrated to a new domain and hosting path without breaking design, links, SEO, or security configuration.

This was also an opportunity to test plugin compatibility, performance, and safe deployment.

Solution

Created a staging subdomain for source: migration-duplicator-src.wpshiftstudio.com.

Used All-in-One WP Migration to first copy the original Lumina Naturals site into the staging source.

Installed Duplicator on the source site to create a full site package.

Created a new subdomain migration-duplicator.wpshiftstudio.com for destination.

Set up a new MySQL database in Hostinger.

Uploaded Duplicator installer and archive, ran the installer, and completed migration.

Used Better Search Replace to fix serialized domain references.

Verified all links, products, and SEO settings migrated correctly.

Submitted new XML sitemap and checked robots.txt.

Re-activated Solid Security and Rank Math carried over successfully.

Gallery

Lumina Naturals Homepage. Duplicator Migration.
Original Website.
Site export using All In One Wordpress Migration. Duplicator migration.
Original website exported with All In One Wordpress Migration.
All in one wordpress migration import . Wordpress duplicator migration project.
Source site prepared with All In One Wordpress Migration.
Homepage of source website for duplicator migration portfolio project.
Source Website Created.
Duplicator installer and compressed file created. Migration portfolio project.
Duplicator plugin installed and archive created.
Running the duplicator installer in the destination website.
Installer and archive uploaded via File Manager. Installer being run.
Duplicator migration completed.
Installer wizard ran successfully.
Destination Site After Duplicator Migration - Lumina Naturals
Destination Website.
Migration check. Replace any URLs that point to source website.
Better Search Replace run – 13 cells updated
Duplicator SEO migration check.
Rank Math SEO data preserved
Check Robot.txt after migration.
robots.txt carried over from original site
XML site map check after duplicator.
Sitemap regenerated in Rank Math
Redirection setup complete for About page.
Redirection setup for About page.
Redirection successfully completed for About page.
Redirect Check completed.

Results

✅ Full migration completed successfully

✅ Website runs cleanly on the new subdomain

✅ SEO meta data, XML sitemap, and robots.txt preserved

✅ No layout shifts, plugin conflicts, or 404 errors

✅ Site remains secure with Solid Security enabled post-migration

✅ Demonstrates safe, SEO-friendly WordPress migration to a new host and domain

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