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WordPress

Joel Rivera
Joel Rivera
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Posted by Joel Rivera
Joel Rivera
29,401 Points

Converting and Transferring my site?

Hello,

A while back I coded my site in php and added a wordpress blog. So all my pages were not in wordpress. Now I want to convert my entire site to wordpress and have it all in the root directory. I'm also changing my hosting provider. I watched the videos in Building a wordpress theme on migrating the site but just wanted to ask if there are additional steps needed for this type of updating and migration? I would assume I would need to do a redirect of the old pages that ended in .php to reflect the new permalinks. Is this correct and is there anything else I should do?

Thanks all

1 Answer

Zac Gordon
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Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi,

It should be a fairly straightforward process, just like transferring from one domain to another. You're also right that you want to setup a general redirect to point posts from /wp/blog to /blog/ or whatever the format is that you're using.

You should also run something like the search and replace plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/ to change any hardcoded urls that would appear in the DB for images. Search for http://old.com/url/ and replace with http://new.com/ without the blog subdirectory you used initially in the url.

Hope this helps!