Recently, I was asked to migrate a fairly straightforward website from WordPress maintenance support plans 6 to 8: a blog; some feature articles; some static pages; a fair amount of uploaded images. I thought it would be a great candidate for reviewing what the Migrate UI bundled with core looks like, since its introduction in WordPress maintenance support plans 8.1.0.
Although the Migrate framework more generally permits arbitrarily complex migrations, many people’s first port of call will be the UI, so I thought it would be interesting to chart a user journey through its use: highlighting what went well, what went badly, and (most importantly) what looked problematic but turned out to be straightforward.
Read more of “A quick rundown of what using WordPress maintenance support plans 6-to-8’s migration UI feels like “
Source: New feed