KapsuleHost Migrator

KapsuleHost Migrator does two things:

1. Export for manual migration (no account required)
Package your WordPress files and database into downloadable archives and move them anywhere you like. No KapsuleHost account needed.

2. Direct migration to KapsuleHost
Transfer your site directly to KapsuleHost. Connect with a migration token and the plugin handles everything.

How the Direct Migration Works

1. Start a migration in your KapsuleHost panel (kpanel.kapsulehost.com) and choose the Plugin path
2. Copy your one-time migration token from the panel
3. Install and activate this plugin on your current site
4. Paste your token, and the plugin handles everything from there

The plugin scans your site, packages files in chunks (works even on large sites), exports your database, and transfers everything directly to KapsuleHost. Your current site is never modified.

How the Export Works

1. Install and activate the plugin (no account needed)
2. Go to KapsuleHost Migrate in your admin menu
3. Click the “Download a copy” tab
4. Click “Package this site”. Packaging runs in the background
5. Download your files and database archives when ready

Features

• Works with any WordPress host (no SSH or FTP credentials required)
• Chunked transfer: handles multi-GB sites without hitting PHP memory limits
• Export mode works without a KapsuleHost account
• Token-based auth for direct migration: no passwords stored or shared
• wp-config.php excluded from all exports for security
• Removes its temporary files when a move ends, and its stored token once KapsuleHost reports the move finished

Security

• Your migration token is single-use and expires in 2 hours
• All transfers are encrypted in transit (HTTPS)
• The plugin never changes your content: it reads your files and database, and writes only its own settings and its own temporary files (in a private, randomly named folder that is removed when the move ends)
• wp-config.php and wp-config-sample.php are never included in exports
• The token is never sent to your browser; it is kept on this server, and deleted when KapsuleHost reports the move finished, when the move stops, when you start over, or when the plugin is removed

External Services

This plugin can send your site to KapsuleHost, a web hosting service operated by Kapsule Group
Limited (New Zealand). It is not required in order to use the plugin: the export path packages your
site into files you download yourself and contacts nothing.

When a connection is made. Only after you start a migration in your KapsuleHost panel and paste
the one-time token it gives you into this plugin, and only while that migration is running. Nothing
is sent when the plugin is merely installed or activated, and nothing is sent if you only use the
export path.

What is sent. Your site’s files and its database, uploaded in pieces to
kpanel.kapsulehost.com, because that is the migration. Alongside them the plugin sends your site
address, the token, a count of files and bytes so the progress bar can be honest, and the reason if
a piece fails so the move can be resumed rather than restarted. Your WordPress administrator
password is never sent: the token authorises the transfer, not your login.

What is received. The state of your migration (which step, what percentage, any error), so this
screen can report what is actually happening rather than guessing, and which pieces KapsuleHost
already holds, so a resumed move carries on from there. Both are asked by this server, never by your
browser, and the token is never sent to your browser.

Shop orders during the switch-over (WooCommerce only, only if you agree). After your site has
been copied, if your site is a WooCommerce shop and your KapsuleHost panel offers it, the plugin asks
you on its screen whether to keep sending new orders to KapsuleHost. Nothing is sent unless you
choose Yes. If you do, the plugin sends kpanel.kapsulehost.com the orders and refunds (with their
items, addresses and notes), stock levels, and customer accounts created here since the copy,
including those customers’ password hashes so they can sign in on the new site (never their login
sessions, application passwords, password-reset keys or other secret keys). It sends this every 15
minutes and shortly after an order changes, in the background (never during a shopper’s checkout),
until KapsuleHost reports the switch-over finished, and stops when you start over or remove the
plugin. KapsuleHost adds them to your new site.

Update checks. The copy of this plugin distributed from WordPress.org uses WordPress.org’s own
update system and makes no update requests to KapsuleHost. The copy downloaded directly from
kapsulehost.com asks kpanel.kapsulehost.com for the current version at most once every six hours.

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