Many blog owners are scared and hesitated to move their blog to another domain because they fear to lose their visitors, downtime and other complications. I will show you now how to get rid off this fear and how to avoid problems while you moving.
First of all, make a backup of all your data in your database and your customized themes and other files.
- On your new domain, create an
index.php
, with the function header() , to let the search engine know, that something is coming soon, visit us again.header("HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable"); header("Retry-After: 3600"); ?>
Alternatively you can use the Plugin Wartungsmodus or Maintenance Mode.
From now on you can work, without to be worried about search engines, on your website. - After that, you import your data into the new database and upload all files.
- Adjust the
wp-config.php
accordingly. Open the file in your editor and add following data:define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://www.example.com'); define('WP_HOME', 'http://www.example.com/blog');
Tip:
I suggest to this in every other blog too. You save a request to the database and it improves the performance of your installation. Please check the correct definition, even a wrong / can deny access to your blog for visitors.
After you add these definitions, don’t forget to check off both fields in your settings area. See screenshot:
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11 responses to “Moving Your WordPress Blog To A New Domain”
> make a backup of all your data in your database and your customized themes and other files.
Remember the uploaded files as well – I almost always forget them when backuping.
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I had to use a 301 redirect for my domain and it took about an hour to get things setup, tested and working working properly. I thought it would take longer, but I was amazed it didn’t.
nice article
here’s the blogger alternetive
http://techtadka.net/tutorials/43-web-hosting/61-linking-blog-to-domain-name
Hey Binny V A, thanks for the added tip, many people forget about it, so did we in our post 😉
Congrats Susan, glad it worked out well.
Thanks kushal, I’m sure many Bloggers will appreciate that.
Wow, this is fantastic.
I owe you so much for this post, I am soon to be changing my blog to a new domain name, and I was just going to to have a redirect on my blog, but this way is fantastic.
I owe you one 😉
Keep up the great stuff 🙂
No problem Craig, if we ever will meet in a bar somewhere in the world, you know who is paying the bill 😉
I think it’s great that it can be so easy to move a wordpress blog.
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Thanks! I just moved my blog to a new domain name and these instructions helped. I ran into a bit of trickiness because I wanted to work on the new blog and leave the old one up and running, but I was able to modify your instructions and figure it out.
Thanks again!
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