Migrate to WordPress.com

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Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

At the current install trend, crossing 3K+ in roughly 122 days.

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

1. ★★★★★ skyislandalliance

   4mo ago

   WordPress’ support team is excellent and responded in a timely manner each day. For some websites, the transition may be easy. Ours was challenging and took 20 days, start to finish, after much troubleshooting. We’re a mid-sized organization with 20,000 supporters and hundreds of webpages, plus a store using WooPayments. That made things complex. Our website was completely down for three hours at one point and our store was down for two weeks. Part of this had to do with the loss of a team member on our end who had some knowledge about WooPayments. Also, we’re using a web contractor who’s involved but not immersed in our website. The Jetpack migration and WooPayment migrations were complex and the help-docs provided didn’t map to our view. We are on the other side now, just surprised at the time it took.

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2. ★★★★★ seeworthy

   11mo ago

   I am doing more and more website migrations and redesigns these days, and Migrate to WordPress.com is a huge time-saver. The support is excellent, and my clients are very happy with the results. I couldn’t ask for more.

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3. ★★★★★ pixelpete

   11mo ago

   I had been self-hosting on GoDaddy for years. GoDaddy support is so-so. Expect to pay extra even for something like migrating your pHP servers from one version to another. I tried it myself but it crashed the site. So I had to restore. Long story short, I got tired of the backend of patching and keeping up with updates, I opted to move my hosting to wordpress.com This plugin made everything easy. I couldn’t add the plugin through the Dashboard so I had to FTP it to the wp-content folder manually. Once it showed up in the dashboard and I activated it, it worked like a charm.

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4. ★★★★★ ctripodi

   1.5y ago

   Thanks to the excellent support from Mike and JJ, I was able to get my new site up and running smoothly the same day.

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5. ★★★★★ Gustavo Hilario

   1.5y ago

   Amazingly easy to use!

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6. ★★★★★ kazimahmood

   1.7y ago

   It was a very smooth exercise that did not disrupt the publishing process. Recommendable. Best hosting.

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7. ★★★★★ Ryan

   1.8y ago

   Worked well! Even on a big, complex site with 20+ years of cruft. This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Ryan.

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8. ★★★★★ Vishnu Gopal

   3.5y ago

   Works reliably and is easy and fast!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 5.88 Tweak: Code Restructuring Tweak: Added support for PHP 8.4 5.88
2. — Version 5.81 Icons and Tags updated 5.81
3. — Version 5.72 Improved UI/UX Improved Migration Process 5.72
4. — Version 6.65 Improvement: Enhanced secret generation using the secure random_int function. Improvement: Improved connection key generation mechanism. Improvement: Optimized migration of large database tables. Tweak: Improved file upl 6.65

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.1

Translated into 58 languages, 10 at 90% or more

Plus 34 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-06-09 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-06-08 2K+ → 1K+ down after 3 days in tier
3. 2026-06-05 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier
4. 2026-06-02 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-06-01 1K+ → 2K+ up after 479 days in tier
6. 2025-02-07 900+ → 1K+ up after 21 days in tier
7. 2025-01-17 800+ → 900+ up after 18 days in tier
8. 2024-12-30 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Migrate Guru – Site Migration & Cloning 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 3 shared tags A
• 1-Click Backup Migration 400+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A
• Migratico Lite 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• H Hostney Migration 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• WP STAGING – WordPress Backups, Restore, Migration & Clone 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Backup Migration 80K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A

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Migrate to WordPress.com: 2K+ active installs, 4.6★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wpcom-migration