Export a Smaller Site With All-in-One WP Migration, Not Your Whole Media Library
All-in-One WP Migration bundles your database, plugins, themes, and media into one .wpress file, and the free version caps what you can import. Infinite Uploads moves your media to the cloud first, so the export shrinks, fits under that limit, and your media keeps serving itself, wherever it lives.
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All-in-One WP Migration and Infinite Uploads: A Smaller Export, Not a Smaller Media Library
All-in-One WP Migration earned its five million installs by bundling your database, media, plugins, and themes into one .wpress file with one click. The catch: the free version's import runs into your host's PHP upload limit, commonly a few hundred megabytes, and a media-heavy export blows past it fast.
Infinite Uploads changes what's in that bundle, not how All-in-One WP Migration builds it. Sync your library and free up local storage, and the plugin's Do not export media library option becomes automatic: uploads is nearly empty, and the .wpress file shrinks to database, plugins, and themes.
Your media doesn't disappear, it moves to Infinite Uploads, with its own cloud storage, global CDN, and Video Cloud for product or course video, included on every plan. The connection survives the migration too: import the smaller .wpress file on the new host, and it keeps serving the same media.
Four Things a Smaller Export Changes About Your Next Migration
Most offload plugins move files and stop. Here's what matters when the plugin is the one you migrate with.
Video Is Usually the Reason Your .wpress File Is Huge
Product demos, course lessons, and background video usually make a media library heavy, and they ride along in every export by default. Offload them and they serve from the CDN as-is. Demos and lessons can go to the Video Library instead for adaptive streaming in the customizable player, included on every plan; background video should stay a plain MP4.
A Smaller Uploads Folder Means a Smaller Export
Free up local storage after the first sync and your uploads folder empties out. All-in-One WP Migration's Do not export media library option becomes the default outcome, and the .wpress file left is database, plugins, and themes: small enough to import without a PHP change.
No More Migrations Stuck at 40 Percent
A gigabytes-heavy export is also the import that stalls at 40 percent on a shared host, timing out before the media ever finishes writing. A .wpress file that's mostly database and plugin code imports in the time it takes to read this sentence, no execution-time increase required.
Agencies Moving Client Sites Without Guessing at File Size
An agency migrating a dozen client sites used to size each export around whatever the destination host allowed. With media already offloaded, every export lands in the same small range, so migrations go faster and nobody downloads a 15 GB file just to move a database.
Why Agencies and Site Owners Pair All-in-One WP Migration With Infinite Uploads
One Bill Instead of a Bigger Host Plan
Cloud storage, a global CDN, and Video Cloud for course or product video on one monthly price. No emergency upgrade to a bigger hosting plan just to keep exporting a media library that only gets heavier.
Move a Growing Library Without a Bigger Export Every Time
The first sync moves your existing media library and rewrites URLs to the CDN. Every export stays small afterward, since the files that used to bloat it no longer live in wp-content/uploads, and Download & Disconnect copies them back to local storage anytime.
Every Client Site on One Account
Agencies running dozens of WordPress sites connect every one to a single Infinite Uploads account. Unlimited sites, one invoice, and no separate cloud credentials to hand off when a client relationship changes.
What Works, Feature by Feature
Feature
What you get
Database, plugins, and theme files
Exported and imported exactly as before. Infinite Uploads only changes what happens to your media.
Works
Export storage folder
Backups save to wp-content/ai1wm-backups, outside the uploads folder. Infinite Uploads only syncs uploads, so it never touches, duplicates, or uploads your .wpress files.
Works, never synced
Exports no longer contain your media
Once you free up local storage, uploads is nearly empty, so the export shrinks, but it stops containing your media, which now lives in Infinite Uploads' cloud storage.
By design
"Do not export media library (files)" option
Offloading and freeing up local storage gets you this automatically, without checking the box or configuring anything in All-in-One WP Migration itself.
Works
Fitting under the free import limit
The free plugin's import is capped by your host's PHP upload settings, commonly a few hundred megabytes. A smaller, media-free export is far more likely to fit without a server change.
Works
Straight host migration
The Infinite Uploads connection survives the move. Import your smaller .wpress file on the new host and it keeps serving the same media with no extra step.
Works, connection survives
Cloning a site, both live
Only when the source stays live too. Disconnect and reconnect Infinite Uploads on the destination after import, so it gets its own credentials and an isolated bucket.
Only when cloning
URL find and replace on import
AI1WM rewrites your domain automatically. Media URLs point at your CDN subdomain and never depend on the old domain, so there's nothing extra to replace there.
Works
WordPress Multisite networks
A single subsite exports and imports normally. Migrating an entire network as one file needs ServMask's paid Multisite Extension, same as without Infinite Uploads.
Paid extension
Up and Running in Three Steps
1. Connect Infinite Uploads
Install the plugin, connect your account, and sync. Your existing media library moves to the cloud. All-in-One WP Migration is untouched.
2. Free Up Local Storage
Once the sync completes, remove the local copies from Infinite Uploads settings. Your uploads folder empties out, and every export after this shrinks with it.
3. Export With All-in-One WP Migration As Usual
Run your export the same way you always have. With uploads nearly empty, the .wpress file is small enough to download, move, and import without a PHP change.
Good to Know Before You Switch
The single most important thing to know: All-in-One WP Migration's export still contains your whole media library by default. Check "Do not export media library (files)" in Advanced Options, or free up local storage first so uploads is nearly empty and the plugin does the same thing automatically.
The free plugin's import limit is your host's PHP setting, not a number ServMask picked. upload_max_filesize and post_max_size decide what fits, commonly a few hundred megabytes, and the paid Unlimited Extension bypasses that ceiling entirely. A smaller export from offloaded media is usually the cheaper fix.
Media added between export and import can end up orphaned. Anything uploaded to the source site after the export starts exists in Infinite Uploads' cloud storage but not in the destination's database, so it won't show in the Media Library there, even though its direct CDN link still works.
How We Tested
- Installed All-in-One WP Migration alongside Infinite Uploads on a site with an existing media library.
- Ran a full export, then freed up local storage and exported again to compare file size.
- Checked the Do not export media library option against the offloaded result.
- Imported the smaller export to a fresh install and confirmed media served from the cloud.
- Confirmed wp-content/ai1wm-backups stayed local and was never synced to cloud storage.
Result: the export shrank, the import worked, and media kept serving without a reconnect.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the export still include my media once I connect Infinite Uploads?
Not once you free up local storage. Uploads goes nearly empty, so All-in-One WP Migration's export shrinks and stops containing media, which lives in Infinite Uploads' cloud storage instead, with its own durability and restore path.
Will a smaller export actually fit under the free import limit?
Usually. The free plugin's import is capped by your host's PHP upload settings, commonly a few hundred megabytes. Strip out the media and most sites' remaining files fit easily.
Do I need the Unlimited Extension?
Only if your database, plugins, and themes alone still exceed your host's PHP upload limit, which is rare once media is out of the export. It bypasses the limit entirely if you do.
Where does All-in-One WP Migration store its backup files, and does Infinite Uploads sync them?
Backups save to wp-content/ai1wm-backups, outside the uploads folder. Infinite Uploads only syncs uploads, so your .wpress files are never uploaded to cloud storage or touched in any way.
Can I migrate to a new host with All-in-One WP Migration?
Yes. For a straight migration where the old site retires, the Infinite Uploads connection survives the move and the destination keeps serving the same cloud storage. Nothing extra to reconnect.
What if I'm cloning a site and keeping the original live?
Disconnect and reconnect Infinite Uploads on the destination after the import. That gets the clone its own credentials and an isolated cloud bucket, so it never shares storage with the original.
Does the automatic URL find and replace on import still work?
Yes, and media needs less of it. All-in-One WP Migration rewrites your domain as always, and Infinite Uploads media URLs point at a CDN subdomain, not your old domain.
Does All-in-One WP Migration support WordPress Multisite?
A single subsite exports and imports normally, and Infinite Uploads offloads it the same way. Migrating an entire network as one file needs ServMask's paid Multisite Extension, same as it would without Infinite Uploads.
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