How to replace a wordpress installation in root directory with another in a subdirectory?

Please refer to the official codex page: Moving WordPress within your site Go to Admin Panel -> Settings -> General. Change WordPress address (URI): (www.thess.com/welcome to www.thess.com) Change Site Address address (URL): (www.thess.com/welcome to www.thess.com) Move your files from subdirectory to root. That’s it.

Best method to upgrade WordPress and Plugins

One Click method should be fine unless you’re getting an error or you know you have some sort of customization in place that would require you to manually update in order not to overwrite certain files, or something. I think you’d know if you need to do it manually. Just backup your database and files … Read more

Duplicated WordPress Site STILL Linked to Old Site

Turns out I was the culprit after all. I searched through all my files for domain1.com and sure enough on lines 7/8 of wp-config.php, I found these lines (which I completely forgot about): define( ‘WP_CONTENT_URL’, ‘http://domain1.com/customlogin’ ); define( ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’, ‘/user/domain1.com/customlogin’ );