Comments on: Help! I Messed Up My WordPress URL Settings

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:15:49 +0000

Thank you so much!!! You saved hours work for me.

I used option 2

Remember: if you have changed the wp_ prefix! (I did)

Thanks again

By: Daniel Hollands

Daniel Hollands — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:31:56 +0000

Since WordPress 2.2, you’re able to define the siteurl and home settings in your wp-config.pfp file.

Provided you’re running WordPress from the root of the domain, simply put the following code anywhere in your wp-config.php file, and it will automatically set the correct domain for you:

define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

(Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php)

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:47:50 +0000

Thanks. Brilliant help and in response to ” Do you think that most people who make this mistake will be able to follow those instructions?” – YES! I am quite able to make a stupid mistake like that and still smart enough to follow the instructions

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:34:38 +0000

Saved my life. Thanks.

By: Kel

Kel — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:59:39 +0000

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just transferred a domain to my blog, and without realizing that the change hadn’t gone through yet, I changed the wordpress url.

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:39:07 +0000

Hi, Thanks so much for this help! I did this and it fixed my homepage, but my other pages are still not being found…is there something else i need to do? If possible could you help me out. I would greatly appreciate it

By: michelle

michelle — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 05:29:29 +0000

you saved my bacon, thanks for posting this

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Veridique Online Transcription — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 03:32:35 +0000

Good Lord, THANK YOU! I completely’d screwed meself.

By: Debs

Debs — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:38:59 +0000

I love you.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:12:09 +0000

Dude, you saved my life. Awesome tip!

By: Hari

Hari — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:18:47 +0000

Thanks a ton!

By: EJ DeCoske

EJ DeCoske — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:18:37 +0000

After replacing my current site (client’s site) with a backup from an old location my site went pear shaped and gave me a momentary anxiety attack. I used your solution coupled with your Velvet Blues Update URLs and it saved me hours of time and heart ache. Thanks for the great resource and the clear explanations!

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:09:31 +0000

Thanks for the work-around for the changed WP URL in settings!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:17:46 +0000

Seriously just saved my ass a lot of time and trouble.

Thank you very much.

By: Josh Groce

Josh Groce — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:45:56 +0000

Saved my life!

By: Anas Munir

Anas Munir — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:41:45 +0000

OMG!!!
I cant believe it..
I thought I lost everything…
You are a life saver man…
Thanks alot…

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:50:38 +0000

Just want to give a big thanks for this fix! I don’t know much about this type of coding, but was able to figure it out quickly and get everything fixed. Thanks again!

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:57:04 +0000

@plin: If you changed your urls and you also want to update your image urls, then you should try our Update URLs plugin.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:01:49 +0000

Holy crap… you saved my ass, sir! Thank you!

By: plin

plin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:26:03 +0000

That worked for me for the site in general but it didn’t work for the images within the post. Any quick fix for this?

By: Chris Gray

Chris Gray — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:03:17 +0000

This was so helpful! I spent hours last night trying to figure this out. Codex was completely useless! You’re not a life saver, but a 16-20 hour saver of me rewriting pages of content. Thanks so much!

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:35:47 +0000

Thanks Jeff, I always appreciate when people let me know that I’ve been helpful. And well said!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:52:55 +0000

I thought these instruction were sweet. Lifesaver. Thank you. You got to love the people with negative comments who think you owe them something. Haaa…

By: Mattz

Mattz — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:12:41 +0000

this is soooo hard to follow. isn’t there an easier way?

By: Kazimir

Kazimir — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:02:10 +0000

Thank you very much, i restored my blog ( thanks to god and you !! ) by editing the database

By: dani

dani — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:01:37 +0000

I am getting the following error. What does this mean?

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_alloptions() (previously declared in /home/content/d/s/t/dstolfi808/html/savetheseaturtles/wp-includes/functions.php:419) in /home/content/d/s/t/dstolfi808/html/savetheseaturtles/wp-includes/deprecated.php on line 1876

By: Lucy@Devil's Grippe

Lucy@Devil's Grippe — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:58:25 +0000

Thank you so much!! That really really helped me. I thought I was going to have to start all over.

By: John Media @ host server

John Media @ host server — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:12:50 +0000

I would appreciate it more if you’d include some screen shots and stating it much more clearly the topics and what really is the problem but either way its a great post I must say thanks ^^,

By: Jared Tseng

Jared Tseng — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:04:15 +0000

Thank you. I almost had a panic attack.