If you are like me, when first starting a word press site, you probably set up a folder or directory in your main public website folder called “wordpress”, which served as a staging testing area for my new Word Press site.
This came in handy because I was new to Word Press, and having it in a separate folder would give me the opportunity to test my new Word Press site. More importantly, it was a safe place to experiment and get used to the Word Press interface.
After about three months, I found myself liking the new Word Press site more than my current website, and decided to make the switch, but I was nervous in moving the Word Press site out of the folder, and into my main public website directory.
The following tutorial was given to me by one of my students and it helped me move my Word Press site from the “wordpress” folder to be my main website – it worked like a charm. Be sure you have your site backed up before proceeding just in case. Good Luck. Below are the steps handed to me, I now pass them to you.
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Hey Randolf,
Here is a short tutorial for moving your website –>
Please read everything before you proceed with the move…
I’m assuming you want to move the site from http://randolfdimalanta.com/wordpress/ to http://randolfdimalanta.com …
First, make sure you create a new folder in your root directory and call it old site or whatever and put all your files that pertain to your site in that folder…This way, you will have the old site to return to if you need to, plus, the old site will not interfere with the new files…
Ok, once you did that, login to your site and go to Settings > General panel. (on the left)
In the box for WordPress address (URL): change the address to the new location of your main WordPress core files. So, right now it should look something like: http://randolfdimalanta.com/wordpress but it should be http://randolfdimalanta.com
Click save settings.
Do not try to open/view your website just yet!!!
Move all your files from the WordPress folder into your root folder.
For any missing pictures, you have to go to the page for that picture and remove the /wordpress from the link…
That’s it…
It is important that you set the URL location BEFORE you move the files.
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Just in case, here is more information: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
But I wouldn’t get too caught up in it, since they make it all sound so difficult. If you just do what I wrote, you should be good to go…
Hope this helps,
See you soon
