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How to move your WordPress 3.3 blog to another directory 12/26/11

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My clients often work on their website before publishing it, so it’s located in a folder that’s not visible from the website. When the site is ready, they must change the WordPress installation directory.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Login and password for the admin section of WordPress.
• FTP connection to your web host
• Spare time of about 30 minutes

What you have to do:

1. Log into the admin interface of WordPress, located by default at: siteweb.com/wp-admin/
2. Go to the Settings section of WordPress, then change the URL in the Site Address (URL) section to the desired one. Warning! : Once this is changed, you will no longer have access to your admin section!
3. Connect to your web host using FTP, then find the folder containing the WordPress installation in question (public_html with the cPanel servers).
4. Once you’re inside the WordPress installation folder, you can drag and drop the files into the folder of your choice. However, I recommend leaving a copy of the file named wp-content, because customers have often used the WordPress media tool for uploading their images.
5. You can now reconnect to your admin interface in order to make the last change. In the Settings section you will find the option Media. The Store uploads in this folder field should be empty so that the default value wp-content/uploads be taken into account.

Disadvantages:

This change is not recommended for old blogs because all the backlinks will return a 404 error or they will return to the main page if the redirection is programmed with a .htaccess file.

About Frederick Mercier

Fred Mercier is a Webhosting, CMS, E-Commerce Specialist who turned to blogging, as a part time hobby, to motivate himself to write about the problems he resolves each day while serving his clients.

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