Moving my current wordpress blog to a subdomain

Check out this word-press plugin: Backup and Move. Backup And Move plugin allow blog administrators to create a complete backup of their blog and easy option for restore it on a different server, domain, location, etc. This plugin can make all the transitions of moving a wordpress blog , creating a complete backup and restoring … Read more

WordPress multisite with domain mapping and virtual host on local with fake domain

DocumentRoot for each VirtualHost should point to the directory where you installed WP multisite. There is no actual directory for subsites, they’re all virtual. Using your example: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot “C:/home/wp-intall-directory” ServerName mysite-1.dev # not required Alias /mysite-1.dev “/home/mysite-1” <Directory “/home/wp-intall-directory”> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> … Read more

Change old URLs after the domain change

Two possible easy ways to replace Old website URL to New Website URL: 1/ Directly replace in SQL file: Export the database and open SQL file. Manually find and replace old website URL with new website URL. Once replace is done, save and import database again. 2/ Use Migrate DB plugin: Use the third-party WordPress … Read more

Htaccess for Wordpess set on single subdomain

My suggestion is: use the same standard .htaccess configuration for WordPress on a single domain in each WordPress directory. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> Along with it, add a small CODE to make sure users are redirected to the … Read more

domain mapping confused about sunrise

Apparantly this happens with the newer version of domain mapping because sunrise.php itself needs to be updated. To solve it I: Copy the new sunrise.php file from wp-content/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/sunrise.php to wp-content/sunrise.php and you’ll be fine. And it works now.