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Changing Your WordPress Site URL
When you move your WordPress site, letting the site know about its new URL can be a hassle, but can lead to many types of errors if you are not careful: the site may not load at all, only the home page may load, images may not load properly, internal links may be broken, and so on. Here is a checklist for the next time you have to do this. There are two main ways to do this; one requires access to run SQL queries (usually by using the PHPMyAdmin tool in your web host’s dashboard, which is typically CPanel), and the other requires editing...
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Changing web hosts? Restoring from a backup? Here are some items to check. Files FTP these folders to your new site: wp-content/plugins wp-content/themes wp-content/uploads Of course, you might choose instead to manually install the plugins and your theme. You might even load your images from a CDN and not need the uploads folder. But in general, these are what you will want to move. Database Backup Export your site database with PHPMyAdmin from the old site. Typically this is as easy as going into “PHPMyAdmin” (your web host...
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