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Transfer Divi site to another hosting

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If you are building site for customer, you probably want to design it on your own web hosting first. After the design completed, then only you will transfer it to your customer web hosting.

Below are quick steps on how to transfer complete Divi website from one wordpress setup to another (within same server or different server.

1. Export wordpress content
Go to Tools > Export. Choose “All content” then click “Download Export File”

2. Export Divi Theme Options
In navigation menu. Go to Divi > Theme Options.
Click the “arrow up and down” icon at top right.
Then click on “Export Divi Theme Options” button

3. Export Divi Theme Customizer
In navigation menu. Go to Divi > Theme Customizer
Click the “arrow up and down” icon at top left.
Then click on “Export Divi Theme Customizer” button

After setting up new WordPress, don’t forget to do the following steps before importing

  1. Import Divi theme
  2. Activate Divi
  3. Apply api key in Divi > Theme Options > Updates
  4. Set the main static page in Settings > Reading

Once all done and set, you can now start importing all exported files. Start with the 3, 2 and 1.

My wordpress blog got hacked!

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Suddenly two of my blogs could not be viewed. It was blank and another one display the “Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!” when browse with Google Chrome.

What I did to recover..

1. Remove the injected script in infected files (this can be checked in the error log file)

2. Login to my wordpress and export all content and save it on my PC

3. Download all my images in wp-content/uploads folder

4. Totally remove the wordpress

5. Do fresh installation with latest wordpress version available in Fantastico

6. Upgrade wordpress to latest version available with auto update feature

7. Make sure I don’t use “admin” as username for my blog and password at least 8 character long consists of aplhabet, number and special characters.

8. Install only neccessary and trusted plugins and themes. Immediately update plugins if new version available

9. Import all the files with import feature in tools

10. Copy back all the images to wp-content/uploads folder. Better check first to ensure no unwanted files in the folder.

Other than that..

1. Scan PC for virus and malware