Redirecting old domain to new domain with wordpress
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Hi all,
I need to change domain name to a website published on wordpress. I'd think to make these steps:
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trasferring the website (files+db) to a new hosting space
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to redirect old site (www.oldsite.com) to the new one (www.newsite.com) using rewrite rules.
With these steps I'd need to transfer and reinstall files and wordpress so I would like to discover if there's some less time expending procedure to consider.
Thanks and ciao
Bob
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Many thanks to Colin and a special mention for lbi-tr: I have never seen before such reply and I have remained astonished Both of you have given to me lot of good information and references. Ciao!
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Ciao Bob,
Hope you are doing well. I have created a video response for your problem. I hope it is what you are looking for.
In Summary
Method 1
If you just care about the site content and don't care about the theme you can download posts, pages and comments using Tools->Export to XML
You can then upload this to the new wordpress instance and either manually change the internal links or use the search and replace plugin to change all instances of the old domain.
Method 2
You can do it the traditional way (it doesn't really take that long). It is outlined here.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
There is also a great post by Yoast that describes how to migrate Wordpress.
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You backup your database from "tools" in the dashboard, and make a copy of your wp-content folder, reinstall wordpress, replace the new wp-content with the old, import the database file...no quicker way as far as I know.
But you can always ask in a wordpress forum and see what people say, or consult the wordpress codex.
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