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Sidebar not visible after changing to new domain

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Don’t replace old url to new url in database file. wp-login.php can be used to (re-)set the URIs. Find this line: require( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp-load.php’ ); and insert the following lines below: Do comment/remove these lines. (once the database is updated) update_option(‘siteurl’, ‘http://your.domain.name/’ ); update_option(‘home’, ‘http://your.domain.name/’ ); for more information http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

Migrating domain name from old WP host to new (which uses vhosts)

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You can set the domain for the WP install in the config-file wp-config.php and so its easy to set an new domain for a install. define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://www.example.com’); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://www.example.com/blog’); Now use WordPress this domains and the settings in backend was not deciding. But the task after this small change is, that you change the url … Read more

Use domain with existing WordPress install

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The easiest way to handle this is to let your domain point to the WordPress directory, in your case: /mysite from your root web folder. This usually can be done either by your hoster or in your cPanel/administration tools. You also have to change WordPress Url and Site Url in your WordPress Settings to your … Read more

3 domains, 1 wordpress install, redirecting and changing domains on live site

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It’s still confusing a little bit but definitely not best to resolve this with WordPress. Many hosting providers offer you to set domain redirect right in their control panel and often that’s the easiest to manage and also not require you to have web hosting with them (domain control is enough). If I understand your … Read more

Multisite redirect loop for a single www domain

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It’s likely down to an nginx configuration if your server runs nginx. For example, an nginx default config could contain:- if ($host ~* ^www.domain.co.uk) { rewrite ^(.*)$ https://domain.co.uk$1 permanent; } This would result in your server trying to set a 301 redirect from www to non www but then when www is defined in WordPress, … Read more

WordPress internationalization + domains

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Of course you can use multisite when it’s about running multiple websites with one installation. You can also use plugins such as MLS to links content. That could be useful to add links to other versions of your posts. To me, multisite + MLS is better regarding perfomance if you compare this with solution such … Read more

Changing the site URL

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If you have access to phpmyadmin the best way in my opinion is to get WP migrate Db Plugin, then create an export sql file with new url address and upload it with PhpmyAdmin. That way you ensure that every place in the site with old url get replaced with new url in a safe … Read more