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WordPress how to change domains?

There are a few steps that you will need to take to go ahead and get the domain changed.

How to change your domain name?

  • Connect to your account using FileZilla
  • Go into your active themes directory normally in /wp-content/themes/
  • Download the functions.php file (for your active theme)
  • Open it using a simple text editor such as notepad
  • immediately after the initial "<?php" line, add the following:

    update_option('siteurl','http://example.com/blog');
    update_option('home','http://example.com/blog');

* Use your own URL instead of example.com, obviously.

  • Save and re-upload the functions.php file, overwriting the original that is there.
  • Go to your admin page, and hit "F5" a couple of times, your new site should come up.

* Please note, that if there isn't a functions.php file in your themes directory, just create a file called "functions.php" and place it in there. The code that would need to be entered into that file would be:

<?php
update_option('siteurl','http://example.com/blog');
update_option('home','http://example.com/blog');
?>

Now, almost done…

  • After you login, click on "Settings"
  • Now, click on "General"
  • Modify both of the below settings:

    Blog address (URL)
    WordPress address (URL)

  • Upon completion, click "Save Changes"
  • Upon completion of the above, just undo the functions.php changes that you did, because now you have set the correct url in the database, you should be fine going forward.
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