It came about that I needed to move a WordPress website from one domain to another last week. To do this it had to be completed in 3 stages. 1 – Download the files locally of the server and FTP up to the new location 2 – Export the SQL DB and re-create on the new domain with the same details (kep the same name for ease – however you can rename in your WordPress config file). Then import the SQL file you created earlier into this new DB. 3 – Run a couple of updates on your WordPress tables to update the domain names. Step 1 and 2 should be easy enough to do (if you have installed WordPress already you’ll have the knowledge to do them). Step 3 is a little … Read entire article »