Good Afternoon DanielGarland,
We are very excited to hear you’ve chosen HostGator to host your WordPress and would more than happy to help with getting your site uploaded. In addition to the codex mentioned by Ron, HostGator also has a guide available which is a bit more specific to our particular platform which can be reviewed here :
https://support.hostgator.com/articles/hosting-guide/website-transfers/how-to-transfer-your-wordpress-blog-from-one-host-to-another-host
In regards to step 1 there, if you are not using phpMyAdmin on your local machine, then you would just need to make sure to have a copy of the database before proceeding. Also, in regards to your original question, it is possible that some updates to paths might need to be made but we would need to take a look at the content first to make that call. If so, there are “Search and Replace” type plugins which can be used to update incorrect paths/URLs but we always recommend ensuring you have a backup copy of the files and database before running any of those operations.
I’ve also found the following article which looks to be geared more towards uploading directly from a local machine rather than a previous host : https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-wordpress-from-local-server-to-live-site/
If you run into any trouble with this process or have any questions, if you could please e-mail [email protected] ATTN : Jonathan H. I’ll be glad to help walk you through the steps.
