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Cloudways WordPress Migrator
A fast way to move unless your site breaks.
HealthyDeclining
70/100
The tool works well for simple sites but can fail completely on complex ones.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.2★
36 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-20%
Declining
181 → 144 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -20% in the last year
181/day a year ago→144/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayThe Cloudways WordPress Migrator is a mixed-reputation tool that works smoothly for many straightforward migrations but has a notable tail of failures, post-migration errors, and support frustrations that undermine confidence for critical or complex sites.
What people like
- +Works reliably for many users across multiple migrations, including WooCommerce sites×5
- +Migration process is described as fast and easy to use×3
- +Cloudways provides helpful tutorials that complement the plugin×2
Common complaints
- −Migration fails entirely for some users, even after multiple attempts×4
- −Support is unable to resolve failures, partly because the plugin is a third-party (BlogVault) tool that Cloudways cannot directly fix×3
- −Post-migration errors reported, including Redis connection errors and critical plugin installation errors on migrated sites×2
- −Migration can stall or error out near completion (e.g., at 95%), with known data table migration bugs left unresolved×2
- −Can be unreliably slow
- −Labels in the migration UI are unclear, causing confusion for less experienced users
- −A manual database find-and-replace for Cloudways URLs is sometimes required after migration
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.18★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
- 6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 36 total
Latest reviews · 36 analyzed
- 2025-11-07★★★★★Great Pluginjefferies1
- 2025-08-19★★★★★Works well for standard WordPress installationscasper
- 2024-11-25★★★★★Almost perfect pluginMickpunt1-shot
- 2024-10-03★★★★★Worked Every Timeolibrodesign
- 2024-07-05★★★★★Works most of the time but quite unreliableantonyjosephsmith
- 2024-06-15★★★★★Multisite MigratedJorge
- 2024-02-05★★★★★Worked for me! Twiceaph5
- 2023-11-27★★★★★WASTE OF TIME!paoolo
- 2023-09-29★★★★★It works on most sites except one todayskylabb
- 2023-07-17★★★★★Damn good pluginHankie
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Cloudways WordPress Migrator
Top Backups plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
126
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
125
Prior 7-day baseline
85
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
145
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+0.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.82
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
69%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.17 → 4.18★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered