WordPress is popular among bloggers all around the globe and is the most preferred Content Management System. Credit goes to the advantages that WordPress offers.

• It is an easy platform and requires no specific technical knowledge.
• Free Plugins are available.
• Easy to add fields and functions.
• Thousands of Free templates are required to create a beautiful and practical website.
• Better support is available from a strong community of developers who provide prompt responses.
• Editing Tools to keep the website clean and professional.

WordPress offers a unique advantage of having two editors:

• Visual editor
• Text Editor

Most of the experts in editing advocate offline editing as it is safer.

Migrate your WordPress website to InmotionHosting.

WordPress feature with several plugins. All plugins help make WordPress sites effective and spam-free. Below are some useful plugins.

1) WordPress Security Plugins

This plugin increases the security of WordPress installation. By using these plugins, users can secure their WordPress site from spammers.

• Limit Login Attempts: if someone tries to unauthorize login, then limit login attempts will temporarily ban the IP address for trying more login attempts. It suggests changing the administrator username to something other than “Admin”.
• WP-reCAPTCHA: Plugin uses an advanced CAPTCHA system to help prevent spam in WordPress. CAPTCHA is an image containing letters and numbers, and the user needs to fill in these words and numbers to prove they are not a spambot.
• Captcha: This plugin prevents unwanted spam bots from the login form, register form, lost password form, and comments form. This plugin allows users to solve simple math problems before leaving a comment or registering.
• Akismet is a powerful plugin that features all WordPress installations and stops spam comments on the WordPress website.

2) WordPress Google XML Sitemaps(SEO plugins)

Creating XML sitemaps takes a lot of work, but using the Google XML Sitemaps plugin can be created quickly and automatically. It will increase the visibility of the website for search engines.

3)Plugins for Facebook and Twitter

In Today’s e-market, social media has become a pivotal aspect of any enterprise. These plugins can be integrated into the WordPress website, allowing visitors to “like” WordPress posts and automatically tweet your posts.

• Facebook Like Button: When visitors like your post, it will appear on their page. With this approach, your website will get social reach.
• Social Media Widget: You can place it anywhere on your side menu; visitors can point to any social site like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Skype, and more.
• WP to Twitter: your post will automatically appear on your Twitter account by this plugin.

Intro to Migrating your WordPress Site data

Ensure you have access to WordPress files as the associated database.

• Migrating Your WordPress Database: for transferring data database, you have to do some work, such as exporting a backup of your WordPress database, creating a NEW MySQL database, and importing the backup you created.
• Migrating WordPress Files: after migrating the WordPress site to in-motion hosting, you need to copy or transfer all WordPress application files. The company uses FTP for this task. If you don’t have FTP credentials, then ask your previous host to provide this prior information.
• Configuring WordPress After a Migration: The next step is to update the configuration setting so recent migrated files can communicate correctly with the database.
• Correcting Image Links After a WordPress Migration: The next important step is to update URLs for images within your posts and pages. Changing the site URL will not fix images on your recent webpage. PhpMyadmin tool will help you to improve things.
• Testing Your WordPress Website After Migration: Before taking the website live it is the last step. You will need to modify your host file on your computer.