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How can I move my wordpress site to a new domain, please help.

by martfay
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So I have a domain that is really getting very popular in Pinterest and other social media services. It is basically a blog sewing tutorial and I did not expect it would become a hit. The problem is I used a subdomain for this blog and I want to completely change the domain name. I want to move it to a more "brandable" or " catchy name because the existing one is really awful, it was just an experiment and it did not expect it to become popular.

So how do I go about this? Will redirect do it? I want to completely move everything to a new domain name? How will the old posts that have been pinned and shared in social media services points to the new site if I transfer the whole blog to a new domain name?

I am a using a wordpress blog. I anyone knows somebody who does a service like this, please let me know. Thanks!
#domain #move #site #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author AZMD
    You might try the WP Plugin called XCloner.
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  • Profile picture of the author butters
    Copy your title and put it in google, 100's of pages will show up telling you how to do it (Lose the please help) I have checked, all the information is there. You even get videos showing you how!
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Here's the instructions on how to move it
    http://domainingdiva.com/transfer.pdf

    Then you redirect the subdomain to the new domain with a 301 redirect.
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  • Profile picture of the author SuperKristen
    Here you go. Google It For Me! you will get every information that you need.
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    • Profile picture of the author martfay
      Originally Posted by SuperKristen View Post

      Here you go. Google It For Me! you will get every information that you need.
      Thanks everyone....

      Also, after moving my site to the new domain name, will it have the same data as my old one, will it reflect the same pinterest counts or facebook likes from the old one?... because that is what I want to happen and not start over.
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  • Profile picture of the author 100KAffiliateManager
    Give this a try - WordPress › Duplicator « WordPress Plugins
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  • Profile picture of the author sunray
    I don't know what these tutorials exactly ask you to do, but there is one step you should not omit: to change all the address paths. Unlike Drupal, Wordpress holds full paths in its database (in Drupal its: /this-is-a-page in Wordpress: http://example.com/this-is-a-page).

    If you just copy your old database and upload it to the new server, you still have all the old address paths that lead to the old (sub)domain. You need to change it somehow. There are probably some plugins that do this, but I did it manually: downloaded the database (NOT gzipped), opened it in Notepad++, and used replace command to replace http://olddomain.com to http://newdomain.com

    I was in a hurry, and used the preview address path that my host provided to be used before the domain started to work. Now I know, I'll never install Wordpress before the domain gets activated. It just creates more work to be done.
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by sunray View Post

      I don't know what these tutorials exactly ask you to do, but there is one step you should not omit: to change all the address paths. Unlike Drupal, Wordpress holds full paths in its database (in Drupal its: /this-is-a-page in Wordpress: Example Domain).

      If you just copy your old database and upload it to the new server, you still have all the old address paths that lead to the old (sub)domain.
      My pdf has instructions to use a simple WP plugin called search and replace that does that in a second.
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  • Profile picture of the author lotsofsnow
    Here is how to do it:

    1. Backup your whole site from the old host
    (all files via FTP and the database via PHPMYAdmin or Cpanel)
    2. Install WordPress on the new domain
    3. Upload all files to new domain
    4. Update the database with the backup you created
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