Migrating your WordPress site to a new domain name can be scary, but it doesn’t have to be. We are here to walk you through every step of the process. You can click on any of the links below to go to a particular step of migrating your WordPress site to a new domain name: ...
Don’t forget to change the settings on all of your third-party accounts which reference or integrate with your website. They’ll need the new domain name! That should be it, you’ve moved WordPress to a new domain. If you have any suggestions or spot things that I’ve missed, please...
For example, the domain example.com is assigned to public_html. If you move the WordPress site from public_html to the public_html/blog folder, the WordPress site's new URL would be http://www.example.com/blog/. Follow these steps to update your WordPress URL: Log in to your WordPress...
In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll show you how to safely migrate your WordPress site to a new host without any downtime. We’ll also answer commonly asked questions about moving a WordPress site to a new hosting provider. Important:Before we start, we want you to know that ...
But you always need to make sure your website is up and running while the migration takes place from one host to another. Keep reading to find out why. Note:You might also want to check outhow to move WordPress to a new domain name. ...
You put a WordPress site, perhaps for a client, then you have to deploy it. But the site where you created it may be on a different host (event a different host provider) and it has a different domain name in its URL. I’ve had to do this a couple times, and I’ve had to wo...
Many people like to create and test a new version of their site in a subfolder so that it does not affect their main domain. Once completed, they will want to migrate the new site over to the root directory for the domain. This is very common with WordPress. Follow the instructions bel...
1. First, take a safe back up of your WordPress installation. This is to ensure that you can restore the settings, if something goes wrong. 2. Next, log in to the FTP account of your webhost and create a new directory in your website. The directory can be anywhere, some of the ex...
Since your visitors won’t know that you have moved to a self-hosted blog, they’ll still be visiting the old one for a time, so you’ll need to have them automatically redirected to the new domain. The easiest way to do this is to use the Site Redirect service from wordpress.com,...
We move a copy of your site onto a temporary domain, so you can see both your existing site on the old host and the new site on Flywheel and compare/contrast the two. Step 3 You take it live! When everything’s looking perfect and you’re ready to go live, you’ll add a domain...