Usually, we create or develop a site in a local environment or a staging server. Once the site is built and tested, we migrate the site from the staging server to the live server. This is a time-consuming process requiring us to back up databases and files and upload them to the live server. Then, we have to change the URLs of the staging site to the live site in the database. As a solution to this time-consuming process, there are several WordPress plugins built to automate the tedious tasks of the migration process. Duplicator is one of the plugins that allow us to create a backup of the entire site and migrate the backup to an existing WordPress site or new WordPress site using an automated process.
In this recipe, we are going to use the Duplicator plugin to back up files and databases and migrate to a different site through an automated...