90
Migrate Guru – Site Migration & Cloning
Moving big sites for free is easy until the destination rules change.
HealthyGrowing
90/100
This tool handles large migrations for free but recent updates reduced its destination flexibility.
Active installs
~250,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 200k+
Rating
4.9★
1,621 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+23%
Growing
1,141 → 1,408 installs/day
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
Growing · +23% in the last year
1,141/day a year ago→1,408/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMigrate Guru is well-regarded as a reliable, free site migration tool that handles large and bulk migrations with ease, though a small number of users report it failing entirely on certain servers and a recent version change that now requires a live domain on the destination, removing flexibility that older versions had.
What people like
- +Handles large and bulk site migrations reliably×4
- +Free to use, with no file size cap unlike competing plugins×2
- +Simple, low-effort migration process×3
- +Recommended as a fallback when host-native migration tools fail
- +Seen as a strong alternative to other popular migration plugins like All-in-One WP Migration×2
Common complaints
- −Reported to fail entirely on some servers regardless of configuration
- −A newer version now requires a live domain on the destination site; older versions did not have this restriction (since new version)
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.84★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 14%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-07-092026-01-052026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 1,621 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-02★★★★★Perfect every timemrbrent
- 2026-06-02★★★★★simple and workinglebuttazzoni
- 2026-05-27★★★★★Migrations always work with this pluginrkramer
- 2026-05-27★★★★★10/10 – best everytrademark2k6
- 2026-05-15★★★★★Indispensable pluginapcinternet
- 2026-05-15★★★★★Ridiculously easy for a free pluginmaglevstudios
- 2026-05-15★★★★★Never worksefinit
- 2026-05-15★★★★★wow-wow-stupendousqykzoo
- 2026-05-15★★★★★Mindblowing migration experience.dhakapdm
- 2026-04-20★★★★★Prefect migration toolelwenzen
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Migrate Guru
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.
1,377
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
1,371
Prior 7-day baseline
918
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,499
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+0.4%
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.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.51
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
97%
5★ share in analyzed sample
14%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+5%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.87 → 4.84★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered