{"id":320,"date":"2014-05-22T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T19:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2014-05-22T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T19:22:46","slug":"how-to-migrate-wordpress-3-x-from-one-domain-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/22\/how-to-migrate-wordpress-3-x-from-one-domain-to-another\/","title":{"rendered":"How to migrate WordPress 3.X from one domain to another"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently came across this situation on a client site where they wanted to change their domain from something like www.whatever.com to www.whatever-new-site.com and their site runs on WordPress 3.91. This is also applicable if you develop a site on a testing url like “testing.whateverdomain.com” and you want to change the site to run off “www.whateverdomain.com” when it goes live. After a lot of research and trial & error, here is the easiest approach to handle this.<\/p>\n

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  1. go to plugins and download and install Velvet Blues Update URLs 3.2.2<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. go to TOOLS -> Update URLs<\/li>\n
  3. enter the OLD DOMAIN and the NEW DOMAIN<\/li>\n
  4. check all the checkboxes that apply (I have always checked all 6 checkboxes and never had any issues)<\/li>\n
  5. click on UPDATE URLs NOW<\/li>\n
  6. go to settings -> general and update the domain info in there.\u00a0 Save the changes.<\/li>\n
  7. At this point you need to adjust your web server settings to begin serving and responding to the site on the new domain name.<\/li>\n
  8. You can now access the site from the new domain name and all should be fine!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    I recently came across this situation on a client site where they wanted to change their domain from something like www.whatever.com to www.whatever-new-site.com and their site runs on WordPress 3.91. This is also applicable if you develop a site on a testing url like “testing.whateverdomain.com” and you want to change the site to run off “www.whateverdomain.com” when it goes live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,61,41],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iis-tips-n-tricks","category-mysql","category-wordpress-tips","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}