Upgrade from Classic to the
Next-Generation Buzzy.

We strongly recommend the Buzzy Pro license ($129/year). It unlocks all official premium extensions—including Buzzy Quizzes (Buzzfeed-style Trivia & Personality tests), AI Content Agent, Community Forum, Paid Subscriptions & Paywalls, Contact Mailbox, and SEO Pro—ensuring you have full feature parity and beyond with your classic setup.

Yes. Your existing Buzzy Classic installation will continue to run without interruption. You can upgrade whenever you are ready to take advantage of PHP 8.4+ (including PHP 8.5), modern Core Web Vitals, and official AI tools.

No. The automated migration pipeline is strictly non-destructive and maps all your legacy data into the new database structure. Your posts, viral lists, polls, quizzes, comments, tags, categories, media uploads, and user login accounts are preserved.

No downtime occurs. Your Buzzy Classic site remains active and operational while you verify your license key and run the pre-flight server validation checks. The actual switchover takes only seconds once you confirm the final migration step.

Yes! Every Buzzy license includes allowances for staging and local development environments (e.g., staging.yourdomain.com or localhost). You can duplicate your classic site to a staging subdomain, test the migration end-to-end, and only switch production once you are completely satisfied.

The transition from Buzzy Classic to Buzzy is automated and non-destructive in four straightforward steps:

1. 1. Choose Your License: Select Buzzy Pro (recommended for full plugin parity) or Buzzy Standard on this page to receive your license key instantly.
2. 2. Enter Key in Classic Admin: Open your existing Classic Dashboard, head to Upgrade to Buzzy, and enter your purchase code to verify domain entitlement.
3. 3. Automated Pre-Flight & Staging: The system automatically validates server extensions, database credentials, and stages release files without touching live data.
4. 4. Launch with Zero Downtime: Click Proceed to Migration to seamlessly switch over your posts, quizzes, polls, media, and user accounts.

Buzzy features a modern visual layout builder and modular Blade component architecture designed for exceptional Core Web Vitals. While your database content (posts, images, comments, user accounts) migrates seamlessly, legacy PHP 7 theme files are replaced with new, ultra-fast responsive layouts that you can customize visually (headers, fonts, brand colors) without touching code.

Buzzy requires PHP 8.4 or higher (fully compatible with PHP 8.5), MySQL 8.0+ or MariaDB 10.5+, and standard PHP extensions (BCMath, Ctype, cURL, DOM, Fileinfo, JSON, Mbstring, OpenSSL, PCRE, PDO, Tokenizer, XML). The migration pre-flight tool in your Classic admin verifies all these automatically before staging.

For complete server environment guidelines and step-by-step setup guides, please see our documentation →

Every license includes direct access to our official engineering support team. If you encounter any server configuration questions or unique database customizations, our team is available to assist you via our support portal →.