There are many ways with which you can transfer your wordpress blog but in this post you’ll learn the most simple method in this post. There are some advantages and disadvantages of this method but for those who have very less content and media should use this method in order to transfer blog to another server.
Requirements –
Navigate to your wordpress folder using cpanel or file manager then copy the upload folder and make a zip file of it. Download this zip file and save it on your hard drive.
Make a list of plugins you used in your previous blog setup. We’re not taking backup of these plugins so it’s better to remember their names and individual settings.
Write down your permalink structure and copy it on notepad.
Other than that copy down all those theme specific settings and backup of every theme that you used on your blog. Make sure you use plugin like wp-db-backup to take alternative backup of your wordpress file in case if anything goes wrong.
Exporting your Current Blog Content and Structure
WordPress has built in feature to transfer content, tag, category and comments to file called WXS(WordPress extended RSS). Click on the default setting and then proceed with the download. This will create a .xml file which holds entire content and structure of your wordpress.
Before moving to new server just copy all the blog content on hard drive using plugins like wp-db-backup or other backup plugins. Once you’re done you can just simply point your nameserver to another hosting service and wait for DNS to propagate. You can check the DNS propagation status by using sites like whatsmydns.net. Once you see DNS propagating to atleast few servers you can begin your wordpress installation on new server. You can use either fantastico or softaculous for that.
WordPress WXS Import
Now that you installed wordpress on your new host you can update the version of current installed wordpress if there is any. It’s better to upload files to new wordpress install than buggy or risky version. Now go to file manager and upload the ‘upload.zip’ which you created in previous step to wp-content/ directory.
Go to Tools > Import > WordPress WXS importer. Click on plugin to install on your host. After activation you’ll find new plugin updated the area in import page where you can see a upload dialog. Upload the WXS file and let it upload the files to your new blog. For media reference the posts will link to same files which we uploaded from the upload directory. This will preserve the old image files and any other reference files which are stored in upload directory.
Disadvantage – In this method, you can’t backup references to your other video media files like .wmv etc properly as many times these settings are disturbed once you change host.
If you’re just hosting text content with occasional image files then this backup method works like charm. Hope this helps for your small wordpress backup. 
