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Hi James,

Thanks. I read through that. I don’t have two domain names under my home directory. What I have is a copy of the old public_html file for the old domain name and the public_html for the new domain. It looks like, from what I’ve read, that I can copy the files from the old public_html to the new public_html. I have two questions then:
1. Replace everything in the new domain’s public_html or only some of it?
2. I brought images into my site before changing the domain name but I don’t see those in images in either public_html. When I go to the site domain, there are definitely images missing. Do I need to bring those into my WP site again?
I am not clear on what to do in the new public_html after the copy. My site URL is already the new domain. I’ve looked at videos and read documents but they didn’t answer these questions. It reminds me of my programming days when the doc said, “Do this” without giving the needed details. Thanks.

Ken

Thanks again Stacy!! Great assistance!

Hi Stacy,

Thanks for all the advice and encouragement. I guess I’ll go look at some more themes. For those of us who don’t normally do web design stuff, what tool would I use to put together a logo on the left and my site’s name and tag on the right in one full-page-wide image? Thanks.

Ken

Hi Stacy,

Sorry for the slow response. I haven’t had time to get back to my web site, so I haven’t really had time to process your information. It sounds like the major issues I have are due to the theme I chose. I chose that becuase it seemed simple and because it is supposed to be able to adjust itself to various devices.

I am wondering if I’d have less work to do if I chose a different theme. Is there any way to know by looking at themes to choose from to determine if a theme would solve these problems, such as not having to create s special tiny logo to go with my site’s name and fit it into a tiny 300x 100 space? Or, can I tell if a theme by default won’t treat pages as blog posts, so I don’t need to create a child theme and so forth just to get this one small change? Or, am I going to be stuck doing something like the suggestions you made no matter what theme I choose? Thanks.

Ken

Thanks Stacy. I fond the two tabs. I’m trying now to figure out how
1.to get the site title and tagline to appear in the header
2. prevent the About page from looking like a blog post
3. Change the permalinks to use words only, like home, About, Contact, etc., when the only options I see offered involve putting a date and/or blog post name on them

This is really hard, and totally non-intuitive, so far as I can tell. Or, it’s just me thinking like a programmer, not a web designer…

Oops. Sorry. I had copied it to the clipboard so I could paste it in.

https://www.prayingwithdavidjesusandpaul.com/