Moving within same Domain, and a bit more complicated…

  • I have wordpress installed on a directory like “website.com/wordpress”.
    On “website.com” I have a static page that I published (not wordpress). My entire website is on the wordpress installation, other than my homepage. I don’t really understand the techie stuff, and I read the documentation on here about how to move within a domain and got quite confused. I know how to use Fantastico and Filezilla. Two questions:

    1. I want to have wordpress on my homepage too, but I don’t want to change the current URL structure. For instance, I want the URL for website.com/wordpress/article to stay the same. What is the easiest way to do this, or does it stay the same after the move? My thought process is that that I will publish a static wp page for my new homepage after I have wordpress installed on it.

    2. I installed wordpress on another directory, and blocked that installation from the search engines, so that I could use it to create a test page. I customized a theme here and would like to use it on my entire website. After I do step 1 above, can I then (somehow) change the theme to the one I have on my test page? I realize I could just upload the theme and customize it (again), but I did a large amount of customizing here and don’t want my site to look crazy while I’m re-customizing the theme.

    I appreciate your time in answering either one or both of these quesions. ??

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  • Could be as simple as this–to make WordPress available at https://website.com in Settings->General, change the Site address (URL) to https://website.com and put this index.php file in your web-root folder (it is the same folder that contains the wordpress folder)

    <?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

    Then update your permalinks by visiting Administration > Settings > Permalinks and clicking on Save Changes.

    Thread Starter girlygurl

    (@girlygurl)

    Um, ok, that *kind-of* makes sense to me. When I pull up my files in Filezilla, do I just copy/paste that text above into the existing file that is called “index.php”? Which index file? Is there an actual folder called “web-root”? Is that text replacing something else, or do I just paste it in before everything else already there?

    Forgive me for my ignorance!!

    As for the permalinks – Do you mean that I will need to add a “CUSTOM STRUCTURE” and put the “/MyWordpressDirectoryName/” in there so that my URL’s do not change? My urls are currently Custom as “/%postname%/”. So, would I then update to “/MyWordpressDirectoryName/%postname%/”?

    Create the index.php on your local machine and put that text in the file. Then use FTP to upload. As for the web-root, let me quote the above

    (it is the same folder that contains the wordpress folder)

    . That file, the index.php should be a new file in your web-root — but if it isn’t then you will want to understand what is already there.

    Suggested updating your permalinks, not changing them.

    Also review and do WordPress Backups!

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