Moving the WordPress site from a directory to root

IF you do as said then there will be no difficulties.

You might find Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory a little easier.

esmi – is the other point (Using a pre-existing subdirectory install) what I need? I don’t understand something from there – if the initial address was example.com/wordpress why does it, under point 7, say this:

Login to the new location. It might now be https://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/

/wordpress/ was the initial directory to begin with, so why is it new?

Also, with this method, do I lose the /site/ directory from the url for the homepage, subpages etc.? It mustn’t show up anywhere.

so why is it new

That’s a typo. It should say “Login to your site”. Codex page corrected.

Thanks! So this will make every page lose the /site part from the URL, right?

Yes.

Wow, that worked flawlessly! Thanks again!