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Every site and every sandbox in your Workspace has a Migration key. Paste it into the WPOS plugin on another WordPress install and the whole site moves there: its pages, its builder content, its media, and the WPOS work that goes with it.
A migration key moves a site. It does not connect one. After the move, connect the new install to your account with your license key, which is a separate step. See Install.

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Move a site

1

Copy the key

On the Workspace dashboard, open the site’s three-dot menu and choose Migration key. Keys start with WPOS-MIG-.
2

Open the new install

Install the WPOS plugin on the WordPress site you are moving to, open it, and choose Migrate a site.
3

Paste the key and confirm

Paste the key. WPOS asks Migrate this site here? and names what will be deleted on this install before anything is sent. Yes, migrate here starts the move; Cancel leaves everything as it is.
4

Connect the install

When the move finishes, connect the new install to your account with your license key. Until you do, the site is there but not yet yours to operate from the Workspace. See Install.

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What moves, and what does not

The site you copy from is not changed. It keeps its license and its place in your dashboard, so a move is a copy onto the new install rather than a handover.
Whatever is on the destination install is replaced. The confirmation names what goes, for example its posts and pages, user accounts, and media files, and it cannot be undone. Use a fresh install, or one you are happy to overwrite.

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While it runs

The move runs on the new install and reports each stage as it goes: Getting ready, Installing plugins, Installing themes, Clearing this install, Copying pages, Copying settings, Copying images, and Finishing up. The stages that work through a list show their progress, for example “Copying pages, 24 of 60”. If something fails, WPOS says so on the same screen rather than leaving the install half finished, so you can retry or ask support with the detail in hand.

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Sandboxes move the same way

A sandbox has a migration key like any other site, which is how a build you started on a throwaway WordPress becomes the client’s real site. Build it on the sandbox, then migrate it onto their hosting and connect it with your license key.

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Who can do it

Moving a site needs the Migrate sites permission, and moving a sandbox needs Migrate sandboxes. Both start on for every role, so an agency manager or operator can move a site they are assigned unless you switch it off. See Permissions.

Workspace

The dashboard where every site’s migration key lives.

Sandboxes

Build on a throwaway WordPress, then move it to real hosting.

Install the plugin

Connect the new install with your license key.

Permissions

Who on your team may move a site or a sandbox.