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If you have decided to
move your Wordpress blog to a web domain that is new, you will need to keep in
mind a few aspects about this process. If you as a blogger have been
self-hosting the publishing system of Wordpress blog on a server for web hosting with a domain name that is registered, then the blog link URL will need
to be organized again to make it look tidy.
Besides this you may even
want to have a new focus reflected or a theme reflected, on the concerned blog.
At the time of making the change you will need to ensure that no links are
broken and proper migration is ensured. A transition could be made to have the
URL changed, or link the Word Press blog location due to the changes being made
in the domain. There could even a change where the blog is transferred to
another directory.
Use
an Online Guide
One of the trickiest
things about moving the WordPress blog to a different directory or location is
that instead of the relative path being used, it uses the absolute path. The
old URLs may also be used by users within contents of blog posts while
generating backlinks for reference. In the database a few changes will be
needed in these values when the WordPress blog is being moved.
An online guide can be
best made use of to get an idea of which of the fields in the database having
values or references related to the URL blogs require modifications. When the
WordPress blog is moved the next thing to do is to inform WordPress about the
location of the new blog. The WordPress Options page can be best used to make
relevant changes in the value.
Modification
Using MySQL Database
However if it is difficult
accessing URL of the old blog or domain name then necessary modifications will
have to be made in the value using MySQL database. SQL statements used in the guide are on the
basis of MySQL replace () function for database modification. You will have to
login to MySQL database for running queries on SQL which houses tables of
WordPress.
To run the MySQL client as
root you could also login into the DB server.
URLs of pages and posts related to WordPress will have to be fixed.
These are the posts and pages which translated from the post slug and were
stored as guide field in the wp posts table database.
Browse
Through the WordPress Blog
Instead of being stored as
relative URLs they are stored as absolute URLs and hence the changes are
needed. An important thing to do to is to find out if everything is alright by
browsing through the WordPress blog.
Logging in into WordPress
administration may be needed, since due to a different domain now the
authentication cookie is not valid anymore. Moving the Wordpress blog to a new
domain can be an easy process only if the basics are understood well and a step
by step procedure is followed for website registration as well.