Switching from hostinger to IF

[Siddhu]

I have a wordpress hosting on hostinger, that site (wordpress) is so small that i I am wasting my money on buying hosting. I want to import the site to infinity free without losing any data or settings, is there any proper way to do that ?

[JxstErg1]

Here is an article to help you migrate your website to free hosting:

How to migrate your website to InfinityFree

If your website doesn’t use MySQL databases, moving your site is very easy. Simply upload all your files to the ‘htdocs’ folder on your hosting account with FTP or a file manager. If you have a PHP based website, check if it has any configuration files where a domain name or file path needs to be set. Update these values as required. If your website is using MySQL databases, you need to move the database contents as well and update the configuration of your website to use the database: Backup…

[Siddhu]

I saw that but it was not particularly written for the wordpress site migration it was for normal static sites

[Siddhu]

Isn’t there a plugin for this ?

[JxstErg1]

There is also a part where it talks about the MySQL database migration, so after you uploaded the website files from your old hosting to free hosting, you need to use phpMyAdmin on the old hosting to export the database backup, then create the database on free hosting through the Control Panel, access the new database’s phpMyAdmin and import the backup, then update the wp-config.php file with the new database connection details.

@Siddhu

Isn’t there a plugin for this ?

It’s not recommended to use backup plugins because they will cause more problems than benefits on free hosting.

[Siddhu]

Seems complicated

[Siddhu]

@JxstErg1

use phpMyAdmin on the old hosting

As I am in hostinger I haven’t really accessed those stuff

[JxstErg1]

Well, Hostinger’s KB has an article on how to access it from there as well:

How to Access phpMyAdmin at Hostinger | Hostinger Help Center

[Siddhu]

@JxstErg1

then update the wp-config.php file with the new database connection

Is there a doc on it ?

[ChrisPAR]

WordPress has its own documentation for moving sites:

Moving WordPress

As for updating wp-config.php, the information is in the article already linked to you by @JxstErg1:

@Admin

(For example, WordPress will have a wp-config.php file) of your PHP script and update database host, database name, database username and database password values. The database hostname, database name and database username can be found in your control panel. The database password can be found in the client area. Note: we do not use “localhost” as the MySQL hostname, the right value should look like “sql123.epizy.com ”.