WP Engine Automated Migrations

About WP Engine Automated Migration

WP Engine's Automated Migrations plugin is being deprecated and will no longer perform migrations to WP Engine. Customers are encouraged to use the WP Engine Site Migration plugin instead. The plugin allows for easy migration of WordPress sites to WP Engine with minimal technical knowledge required.

Frequently asked questions

What is WP Engine Automated Migrations?

WP Engine Automated Migrations allows you to easily migrate your WordPress site to the WP Engine platform. All you need to do is provide the plugin your WP Engine SFTP credentials and let the tool do all the heavy lifting.

Where can I find full instructions and solutions to common errors for WP Engine Automated Migrations?

For full instructions and solutions to common errors, please visit our WP Engine Automated Migrations support garage article.

What are the benefits of using WP Engine Automated Migrations for developers?

This tool will provide you an quick way to migrate sites, allowing you to work on your other projects while the plugin does all the heavy lifting. No need to worry about searching/replacing values in the database, the plugin does it for you. You can migrate multiple sites easily.

What are the benefits of using WP Engine Automated Migrations for marketers?

Worried about SEO? The plugin will keep all your links the same, making sure you do not lose any SEO. Minimal technical knowledge needed to migrate your site to WP Engine.

What are the benefits of using WP Engine Automated Migrations for site owners?

Minimal technical knowledge needed to migrate your site to WP Engine. Focus on your business instead of migrating your site. No need to hire a third party migration team.

Changelog

5.48

Added Deprecation Notice

5.25

Bug fix get_admin_url

5.24

SHA256 Support
Stream Improvements

5.22

Code Improvements
Reduced Memory Footprint

5.16

Bug Fixes

5.15

Upgraded Authentication

5.05

Code Improvements for PHP 8.2 compatibility
Site Health BugFix

4.97

Code Improvements
Sync Improvements
Code Cleanup
Bug Fixes

4.78

Better handling for plugin, theme infos
Sync Improvements

4.69

Improved network call efficiency for site info callbacks.

4.68

Removing use of constants for arrays for PHP 5.4 support.
Post type fetch improvement.

4.65

Robust handling of requests params.
Callback wing versioning.

4.62

MultiTable Sync in single callback functionality added.
Improved host info
Fixed services data fetch bug
Fixed account listing bug in wp-admin

4.55

Added Migration Readiness Page

4.54

Upgrading to new UI
Added Support for Multi Table Callbacks

4.35

Improved scanfiles and filelist api

4.31

Fetching Mysql Version
Robust data fetch APIs
Core plugin changes
Sanitizing incoming params

3.9

.htaccess Warning Added in Main Page

3.4

Plugin branding fixes

3.2

Updating account authentication struture

2.3

Adding params validation
Adding support for custom user tables

2.1

Restructuring classes

1.88

Callback improvements

1.86

Updating tested upto 5.1

1.84

Disable form on submit

1.82

Updating tested upto 5.0

1.77

Adding function_exists for getmyuid and get_current_user functions

1.76

Removing create_funtion for PHP 7.2 compatibility

1.72

Adding Misc Callback

1.71

Adding logout functionality in the plugin

1.69

Adding support for chunked base64 encoding

1.68

Updating upload rows

1.66

Updating TOS and privacy policies

1.64

Bug fixes for lp and fw

1.62

SSL support in plugin for API calls
Adding support for plugin branding

1.44

Removed bv_manage_site
Updated asym_key

1.41

Better integrity checking
Woo Commerce Dynamic sync support

1.40

Manage sites straight from BlogVault dashboard

1.31

Changing dynamic backups to be pull-based

1.30

Using dbsig based authentication

1.22

Adding support for GLOB based directory listings

1.21

Adding support for PHP 5 style constructors

1.20

Adding DB Signature and Server Signature to uniquely identify a site
Adding the stats api to the WordPress Backup plugin.
Sending tablename/rcount as part of the callback
Updated UI and added helpful content to provide a better migration experience.

1.17

Add support for repair table so that the backup plugin itself can be used to repair tables without needing PHPMyAdmin access
Making the plugin to be available network wide.
Adding support for 401 Auth checks on the source or destination

1.16

Improving the Base64 Decode functionality so that it is extensible for any parameter in the future and backups can be completed for any site
Separating out callbacks gettablecreate and getrowscount to make the backups more modular
The plugin will now automatically ping the server once a day. This will ensure that we know if we are not doing the backup of a site where the plugin is activated.
Use SHA1 for authentication instead of MD5

1.15

First release of WP Engine Plugin