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Best WordPress Plugins for Moving Sites

15 plugins compared · Updated August 2026 · Migration & Cloning

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Choosing a WordPress plugin for moving sites comes down to a few things: whether it is still actively maintained, whether real users rate it well, and whether it does the specific job you need without dragging the rest of the site down.

We ranked 15 plugins using our WPScore, which weighs the user rating (adjusted for how many people actually rated it), how many sites run it, how recently it was updated, and which WordPress version it is tested against. 15 of them have enough public data to be scored; the rest are listed below the ranked block, clearly marked, rather than being given a number we cannot justify.

How this list is funded. Some links here earn us a commission if you buy. It costs you nothing extra, and it does not move anything up the list — the order comes from the WPScore, which is calculated from public ratings, install counts and update history. See the method.

At a glance

  1. 1. UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin Best overall 95/100
  2. 2. All-in-One WP Migration and Backup 93/100
  3. 3. Duplicator 93/100
  4. 4. WPvivid 93/100
  5. 5. Migrate Guru 93/100
  6. 6. WP STAGING 92/100
  7. 7. Backuply 90/100
  8. 8. BlogVault Backup & Staging 87/100
  9. 9. WP Migrate Lite 86/100
  10. 10. Royal WordPress Backup, Restore & Migration Plugin 86/100
  11. 11. Prime Mover 86/100
  12. 12. SiteGround Migrator 85/100
  13. 13. Search & Replace Everything 85/100
  14. 14. Menu Duplicator 84/100
  15. 15. FG Joomla to WordPress 84/100
3 Duplicator
Free by Syed Balkhi

Duplicator

The best WordPress backup and migration plugin. Quickly and easily backup ,migrate, copy, move, or clone your site from one location to another.

4.9★
from 4,929 ratings
1M+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
93

WPScore

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4 WPvivid
Free by wpvividplugins

WPvivid

All-in-one WordPress backup, migration and staging plugin — schedule automatic backups, restore in one click, and migrate or clone sites safely.

4.9★
from 1,536 ratings
900k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
93

WPScore

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5 Migrate Guru
Free by migrateguru

Migrate Guru

Effortlessly migrate, clone, or transfer your WordPress site to over 5,000 web hosts with Migrate Guru, trusted by Cloudways, Pantheon, and Dreamhost.

4.9★
from 1,633 ratings
200k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
93

WPScore

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6 WP STAGING
Free by Rene Hermenau

WP STAGING

WordPress backup plugin: backups, restore & migration in minutes. Clone or duplicate your site, test updates on a staging copy. 100% unit-tested.

4.8★
from 2,464 ratings
100k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
92

WPScore

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7 Backuply
Free by Softaculous

Backuply

Backup, restores, and migration with Backuply are fairly simple with a wide range of storage options from Local Backups, FTP to cloud options like AWS …

4.5★
from 136 ratings
600k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.0.4
90

WPScore

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9 WP Migrate Lite
Free by WP Engine

WP Migrate Lite

Migrate your database. Export full sites including media, themes, and plugins. Find and replace content with support for serialized data.

4.2★
from 316 ratings
200k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
86

WPScore

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11 Prime Mover
Free by Codexonics

Prime Mover

The simplest all-around plugin to migrate WordPress and do backups. These support multisite backup/migration or cloning a WP site/multisite subsite.

5★
from 137 ratings
10k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
86

WPScore

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12 SiteGround Migrator
Free by SiteGround

SiteGround Migrator

Transfer your WordPress website to SiteGround without any hassle in a completely automated way using SiteGround Migrator.

4.3★
from 400 ratings
80k+
active installs
Updated
Jun 2026
Tested to
WP 7.0.4
85

WPScore

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14 Menu Duplicator
Free by Jeremy Ross

Menu Duplicator

Effortlessly clone your WordPress menus with Menu Duplicator, the user-friendly plugin designed to streamline your website management process in just …

4.7★
from 13 ratings
10k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
84

WPScore

Read review View on WordPress.org