Moving an existing site | JormunTL docs

Bringing a library across from another JormunTL site, or converting a Madara or Fictioneer library in place.

Needs the JormunTL Transfer plugin, installed from JormunTL ▸ Install Plugins. It lives at Tools ▸ JormunTL Transfer.

The JormunTL Transfer screen

It does two different jobs.

Moving a JormunTL site

Exports the whole site as one archive: settings, novels, chapters, comments and cover images. Import that archive on the new site and you have the same site.

This is the one for a staging site going live, or a change of host.

Migrating from Madara or Fictioneer

Converts an existing library in place, leaving the original untouched. Your old posts stay exactly where they are; new JormunTL novels and chapters are created alongside them.

That matters more than it sounds. It means a migration that goes wrong is not a catastrophe: nothing was overwritten, so you delete what was created and try again.

Either way

Back up first. Not because this is dangerous, but because a migration is exactly the moment you want a backup and cannot make one afterwards.
Run it on a copy if the site is live and has readers.
Check the covers. Images are the part most likely to need attention, because they may be on a path the new site knows nothing about.
Check your permalinks before announcing anything. Chapter URLs are configurable in performance and URLs, and links you have already published should keep working.