How to import a site created with WordPress Studio

WordPress Studio is an agentic local development tool for WordPress that lets you export your completed site for production deployment. The default format does not contain a complete WordPress installation, but only the wp-content folder, a database backup, and a meta.json file with details such as the PHP version.

How to Import Guide

Install WordPress using WordPress Management in cPanel
Upload the WordPress Studio export zip file to your account using cPanel’s File Manager or FTP
Extract the zip file to a temporary directory
Copy the wp-config.php database details from the WordPress installation you just created
Empty the database using phpMyAdmin or delete and create a new database with the same name through cPanel’s Databases page
Import the database backup using phpMyAdmin or the command line
```
mysql -u username -p database_name < backup.sql
```
Replace username and database_name with your actual database credentials from the wp-config.php file.
Update wp-config.php to reflect the prefix used in the backup.sql file or from the WordPress Studio wp-config.php file
Copy the wp-content folder from the extracted zip file to your WordPress installation
```
cp -rT wp-content /path/to/wordpress/
```
Update the site URL in the database to match your production domain
Terminal window
```
wp search-replace 'dev.local' 'yourdomain.com'
```

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