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Wordpress Expert Needed

by John Sullivan
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If there is anyone who knows WP really well and can help with my problem I would be really grateful. I have an existing WP blog that I have on the main domain.com and I would like to change to domain.com/blog. The problem is if I do that how can I redirect all the existing incoming links to the /blog directory. I want to put a squeeze page on domain.com and have the blog in the background.

I have been told by Hostgator support it is not a good idea to mess with redirecting WP links. Anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks

John
#expert #needed #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Igor Kheifets
    John, please PM me, I think
    I might be able to help you with this.

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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    The moving itself is a very easy process:
    1. go to the blog's dashboard > Settings > General
    2. change the 2 URL fields (WP address and blog address) to the new location; NO slash at the end and Save Changes
    3. You will get a big error message -> Ignore it!
    4. Don't try to look at your blog
    5. via FTP move all your WP files/folders to the new location
    That's it.

    (If you have uploaded media in your posts... you may need to run the "Search and replace" plugin to change the path to them, i.e. from
    example.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/image.jpg
    to
    example.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/image.jpg)

    As for the redirect... you need a .htaccess expert, NOT a wordpress expert
    or a plugin: Redirection - Manage 301 redirections without modifying Apache | Urban Giraffe
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    You should be able to manage the redirection with Deans Permalink Migration plugin. As for moving it, go to one domainingdiva.com/installationinstructions.pdf ... this tells you how to move a blog from one url/address to another, which is basically what you will be doing.
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    • Profile picture of the author John Sullivan
      Thanks for all the help eveyone. So just to be sure if I use Dean's permalink migration plugin would I change the old permalinks from /%postname%/ to blog/%postname%/ and all the links going to the posts and pages would then go to the same posts in the blog folder?

      Thanks

      John
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