Q. I’ve installed my website in a subdirectory of our domain, because I didn’t want visitors to see the site until I was finished with our development. Now I want to have the site show up in the root directory (not in the http://mydomain.com/wordpress directory). How do I do this? I’ve read the information on […]
Installing WordPress in a subdomain is a great way to create a staging environment for development. The subdomain (for example http://dev.askwpgirl.com) is a self-contained space to do development without interfering with the live site. When the development phase is complete, the question becomes “How do you move WordPress from the subdomain to the root?” Note: […]
In my blog post How do I move WordPress from a subdirectory to root directory, I describe a process in which you don’t have to physically move the WordPress installation but can make a few settings changes in order to have the URLs for posts and pages display from the root while leaving the WordPress […]
If you followed the instructions in my post “How do I move WordPress from a subdirectory to the root directory?” and you encountered any issues, please read the following list of frequently encountered issues. This FAQ is not for the process of physically moving WordPress from the subdirectory to the root but for troubleshooting the […]
