Comments on: How To Move A WordPress Blog or Website

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:30:10 +0000

i have changed website address and blog address to a wrong url , now i cant login my admin where can i change the url???please help

By: John V

John V — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:50:11 +0000

Just a quick thanks for answering all my questions about moving a WordPress blog and website. I’ve used the above instructions a number of times and it has saved myself many hours of work.
Many Thanks!, John V

By: LK

LK — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:25:45 +0000

Thank you. The export/import worked.

By: Dan Morris

Dan Morris — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:04:35 +0000

THANKS! The best solution I found. You made it so easy!

By: Nehemoth

Nehemoth — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:54:18 +0000

I found my problem, as the time have passed by, I have multiple tables, so my Table_Prefix should be set to the correct table set.

By: Nehemoth

Nehemoth — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:33:32 +0000

Hello, First I know this post is old but still, maybe someone is watching it.

I’m trying to prepare myself for a future host from host migration, so I want to do the testing locally, so I’ve done all that is listed here.

Done the wp-content backup
Done the DB backup
Create a New DB
Create a New user
Set permissions to new user
Restore the downloaded DB into the new database
Installed wordpress
configure wordpress
update via commands the new domain and all stuff

The connection all went just fine, but no one post appear, no information in the blog.

I know I can do an export/import via wordpress but I want to do it via the SQL DB (hard) way.

BUT i know I’m doing something difference which I do not know if should be done in this process :

First I installed wordpress on IIS (just for the sake of learn how to)
Second I’m using a different version of wordpress from the actual blog. I have wordpress 2.9.2 in the production site and wordpress 3.0 RC1 in the development site.

As I said before, my problem is that after I did everything as told me by every guide that I could find, I can not see the information even as the site is working.

By: John Media@dedicated server

John Media@dedicated server — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:31:07 +0000

I think this will be better if you’d include screen shots so It would be much easier to understand but I’d say its a great tutorial and really helped me a lot Thanks again ^^,

By: Zmom

Zmom — Tue, 25 May 2010 02:06:36 +0000

Thank you so much! I almost paid someone to do what it took me 5 minutes to do with your method!

I am bookmarking your site!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:39:29 +0000

I have moved our wordpress site to a new domain and it is mostly successful using your plugin. All the images appear correctly in the posts and pages however when I’m using the admin pages, nothing appears in the “Media Library”.

All of the jpg files were moved to wp-content/uploads folder with year and month directory structure.

Why don’t these files show up in the Media Library?

Any help would be much appreciated.

By: Bouncy Castle Hire Weston-Super-Mare

Bouncy Castle Hire Weston-Super-Mare — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:25:42 +0000

Thank you for the information !
Been trying to do this now for a few days… Your blog helped me LOTS !

CHEERS

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:06:22 +0000

You guys rock! Thanks so much. I’ve been working on this for hours. I went to the WordPress site and they gave me the wrong instructions! They said to change the url first and then upload the files but they had it backwards. I did it your way and it worked immediately. Thanks again. You saved me a LOT of work.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:27:53 +0000

Nevermind my question, I am not sure how but the second time around worked like a charm! Thanks!
Leigh´s last blog ..Holiday WordPress Website Deals

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:33:38 +0000

Hi VB,

I am trying to move an entire site out of a folder to the main root and hitting errors so I reverted it back by changing the database. So I am back at step 2 under changing to ta new directory. I Transfer all files. Then when I Updated your WordPress settings to the new url (site root) clicked save, I got an error. So then I tried to login to the new admin under the root and can not get in. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
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By: raapil

raapil — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:06:25 +0000

Hi there – I tried your preferred method as it is the only one I’m able to use. The old WP-installation is not online, I only have acces to the old database.

“Method 2: Work Directly With The Database”

I downloaded all tables and content to harddisk, then uploaded to the new database. Then I made a new install of WordPress – and got a quite new installment of WP, but without any of the old files.

The files are on the right place in the new database, so what went wrong?

best, Lars

By: Pothi

Pothi — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:40:28 +0000

This is a complete guide I have seen so far. I’m going to use only a specific part, though. Thanks for the compiling such a wonderful guide.
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By: vincent simon

vincent simon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:36:17 +0000

I have a “move” problem that does not fit nicely in any of the listed options. Unfortunately my WordPress install and my blog are not in the same domain/directory, (an installation error).
My blog is at http://blog.kitchentherapy.us and my WordPress installation is at http://kitchentherapy.us/blog/
After 2 months of blogging I find I have problem because of this discrepency.
Now how do I change the WordPress installation location to be at http”//blog.kitchentherapy.us without moving the blog location?
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By: peluang usaha

peluang usaha — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:46:10 +0000

Thanks for sharing good information, i learn how to move wordpress here.

Keep posting.

David

By: Team Novo

Team Novo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:12:09 +0000

We were moving our wordpress blog and your tutorial just rocks…keep them coming….

By: front

front — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:45:35 +0000

I have successfully used Fantastico to generate a WP blog on domain A (I also have CPanel and MySQL admin access on domain A – if needed). Now I want to move that blog to a different ISP (on domain B) but I ONLY have FTP access on domain B. Is that move doable?

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:54:46 +0000

Great. Sorry for the trouble.

By: Ziv

Ziv — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:39:40 +0000

Thanks, now it is clear.
I have to wait until domain/dns will point to the new host.
meanwhile, I managed to overcome this problem by revising the blog name url at the wp-option database.
and now i can log to the admin area and continue testing.
Ziv´s last blog ..Move Your Career Forward & Maximize Your Career Potential

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:08:43 +0000

In my previous reply, I mentioned if you are using the same domain name, then YES, you’d enter it at the new location. This assumes that you will be actually moving your blog.

What you did is enter the domain settings and now you have two WordPress installations setup to use the same domain. This doesn’t work. Your domain points to the old host, so whenever you try to admin the site, you will go to the old host. Until you point your domain to your new host, you won’t have access to the new admin area.

Note: DO NOT POINT YOUR DOMAIN TO YOUR NEW HOST UNLESS YOU’VE CREATED AN EXPORT FILE AND HAVE DOWNLOADED YOUR WP-CONTENT DIRECTORY or you’ll find that you have a bit more work on your hands.

By: Ziv

Ziv — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:40:38 +0000

Thanks,
Well it doesn’t work, i have just tried this.
If you write the same blog/url name (www.xxx.com) in the setting/general at the new host, you are actually pointing to your blog at the old host (the blog is active at the old host) and while trying to log in you are prompted to enter the password of the active blog (old host).
Now, I cannot enter to the admin area.
I hope you catched my point.
Any suggestion?
Ziv´s last blog ..Move Your Career Forward & Maximize Your Career Potential

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:12:13 +0000

Hi Ziv. If you are simply moving from one host to another host and NOT changing domain names, then you would just put in the url that you are using for your blog. Otherwise, if you are using a new domain name, then you’d enter in the new url.

By: Ziv

Ziv — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:43:38 +0000

I am moving form one host to another.
I wonder what to write in the blog address url at the General settings of the new host.
I mean before chnaging the dns.
thanks
Ziv´s last blog ..Move Your Career Forward & Maximize Your Career Potential

By: Sam Small

Sam Small — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:33:36 +0000

my wordpress folder got deleted by accident. My host, Godaddy, had me build a new mysql file and they restored the old database into that new file. I did the restore of the wordpress folder so my uploaded files are present, but when I reconfigured the wp-config.php to the new identity so they see each other the blog comes back essentially empty, none of my old posts, pages, comments etc. are present.

I see that none of my widgets are in place, it’s as if the theme was reset to default. Also, all my plug ins are in the plug ins folder but none are activated nor applied.Wouldn’t my customized theme have come back with the restore of the WordPress folder? Or is there some pointer to the mysql that WP is not seeing right? The new mysql has a different user name and database name than the old, but I updated wp-config.php to see the new mysql.

Is there some other file that needs to be updated with those new names so the theme i customized comes back?

Google has them cached for now, can I get the code from Google and plug the pages back in somehow? If so how?

Thanks in advance.
Sam

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:49:59 +0000

Your plugin rocks… I searched for info on how to move to a different directory.. your step by step was the best and your plugin made it even easier.. thanks!

although wordpress notified me that the plug in was not tested with 2.7.1 – it worked great!

By: Mags

Mags — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:38:32 +0000

I’m hoping you can help me, or point me in the right direction to get help. I’m new to all this and very confused. Tried finding help on the net but not finding anything that has helped so far.

Without going into a book on the details, this is a brief outline of my situation.

2 domains. abc.com and xyz.com. I want wp to be xyz.com/blog

abc.com is main domain and xyz.com is inside a folder of abc.com i.e. abc.com/xyz.com. xyz.com is classed as a pointer domain.

There was a problem trying to install wp so the web host support staff got involved. Only one person was able to help, up to a certain point, and then I was left with what they did.

What left with:

In abc.com web directory
folder for xyzwp
folder for xyz
plus all the web “stuff” for abc.com

In xyz folder
folder for xyzwp
plus all the web “stuff” for xyz.com

The xyzwp folder inside abc is the one the web host support person was able to generate a password for me, and is the wp which should be used.

I should mention that trying to delete the xyzwp folder within xyz folder can’t be done by me. Don’t know if the support staff tried to delete it or not.

When logged into wp under General the WordPress address URL shows as abc/xyzwp and the Blog address is identical. I haven’t changed anything yet.

Question: will this setup be able to show the blog address as xyz.com/blog or if not how do I fix it?

Sorry for the long outline, but that is as brief an outline as I can give.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:31:11 +0000

My existing blog is running WP 2.1. I am trying to move it to a new domain. I installed WP 2.7 on the new domain and it is running fine unpopulated. I then followed method 2 above. New blog stopped working. Do I need to upgrade existing blog to 2.7 first and then move to new domain.

By: Traci

Traci — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:12:01 +0000

I’ve been trying and trying to move my word press blog to a new domain and host. All I keep getting is creat a configuration file, but should I do that since I’m not creating a new word press, just moving an old one?