Wordpress Help Please!

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Im trying to install a website for a friend who already has a website hosted.

I need to make him a new website on the same domain but on diffrent hosting..

Im using wordpress. How am i able to do this so there is no downtime at all ?

Thjanks
  • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
    OPTION 1: Make it on a subdomain and then clone it over when you're done.

    OPTION 2: Make your new site on hidden pages, and then replace the existing pages (eg. "Home") with the new ones when they're ready.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Perry
    I think Jason's option 1 is probably the best approach. Create a simple sub-domain on your own hosting, and develop the new site there. Once the new site is complete, add your friend's domain to the new hosting, install Wordpress, transfer the site you created onto the fresh Wordpress install, then finally change the nameservers for the domain to the new hosting. If there's problems you can always revert back to the previous nameservers while you fix them.

    If you're not comfortable with transferring the site from your sub-domain to the new hosting, check out Fiverr. There are plenty of people that can take care of it for you.

    Take care,

    Kevin
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