Use domain with existing WordPress install

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

WordPress internationalization + domains

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

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

How to create short urls for sharing and downloadable content?

Here’s a possibly simple solution, using an ancillary table, and user-defined short slugs: create a post_meta “short_slug” when creating a post, the link-name from your example on save_post, if (meta_key=’short_slug’ and is_a_valid(meta_value)) wpdb->insert into short_slugs_table slug,permalink , your index.php on your mgscr.com could then open a mysql connection to the same db, parse the url … Read more

How can I make my domain work with my site?

So to paraphrase your question: “I set up a VPS at and installed WordPress. Then I set up my domain name. How do I make WordPress think it’s at not ?” From the URL provided I can conclude you have vhosts setup, so it isn’t a server setup issue. The answer is a search replace. … Read more