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1. gerrycircus
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   This may seem like a basic basic question.

   I have a rather large website going live in 3 weeks, and I have been working on the website on an alternative URL. Inside here I have created the pages, and for the website as "pages" etc.

   If I copy the theme, export the database from the development URL and upload the theme, and import the database into the "live" URL - will all the pages from the development URL come across?

   I need to know this before I start dropping in the correct copy for the website into the development URL.

2. Shane G
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Hi,

   Refer these articles:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

3. gerrycircus
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   hey shane
   thanks for this - this is pretty much what i thought - but i got a little bit confused when they mentioned about the old blog etc.

   the way i have it planned is:
   http://www.oldsite.com > http://www.newsite.com

   I will copy DB and all relevant items related to the theme that I have been working on for http://www.oldsite.com (seperate servers).

   http://www.newsite.com (already has wp installed on it) so upload the new theme (images, plugins etc), upload the new DB.

   This should be it? I'm still not sure that if I upload the DB to http://www.newsite.com will WP automaically generate pages for me? ie if on http://www.oldsite.com I had 20pages will they come across when i update the DB on http://www.newsite.com

4. topgunscooter
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   You could simplify your efforts by leaving everything on the old site, then redirect the url from the new site to the old one. A viewer types http://www.newsite.com and the browser loads http://www.oldsite.com. You could also set the new site up as a single frame frameset and call up the url of the old site into the frame using scr="" html. The latter method will show the new site domain name in the nav bar of the browser.

5. gerrycircus
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I dont think that is a solution I could use for this project topgunscooter - as 1/ thats not great for SEO and 2/ I absoutely detest frames.

   There's only one way to do it in web dev world - and that is the right way. Short hand ways create problems in the future.

   Thanks for the suggestions though

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