About to migrate site to new domain

Sounds like you know what you are doing that’s a good start at a migration checklist 🙂

FWIT …

  1. Search and Replace is a very good plugin

    • make sure you have a backup (my plugin DBC Backup 2 can help there) of your SQL database before you run it (just in case)
    • Try to always set you’re image and other URLs as relative (then you won’t have to change or fix them when the domain name changes)
    • use a tool like Xenu’s Link Sleuth or Scrutiny for Mac to check all your links (or the broken link checker plugin)
    • When you do the move have — SequelPro, PHPMyAdmin or SQLYog handy. Because …
      warning you’ll have to edit the SQL table for WP_Options and change site_url and home_url you can edit WP-Config as a temporary fix

  2. I think you mean the readme.html file in the ‘wordpress’ root folder and yes it does get added again next time WordPress is updated

  3. This is best done in an .htaccess file and a simple redirect rule like this will do the trick. Have a look at perishablepress.com
    ‘Redirect 302 http://newsite.com http://subdomain.newsite.com’

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