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1. djsmart
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Good day everyone,
   This is the 1st time I post here, maybe with an unusual question (unfortunately could not find related info using the search, but this may apply: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
   I'll try to explain as best as I can (english is not my mother tong)

   I have my blog set up and working great for +4 years now, but I would like to change the main domain for several reasons.
   1 - Today the blog is hosted at www.OLD.com/blog and all the permalinks are OLD.com/yyyy/mm/dd/post-title.
   2 - I have another domain NEW.com which redirects to OLD.com/blog
   3- I want to move the Blog from Old.com/BLOG to NEW.com, HOWEVER, because several sources are linked to my permalinks, I would like to know if it is possible to keep the old URL working as well?

   What I mean is: If I change to NEW.com today, I want the new permalinks to be NEW.com/yyyy/mm/dd/post-title but at the same time I want to keep the OLD.com/BLOG as it is today, so the indexed google pages will continue to be working and people with old permalinks will find me as well.

   If the answer is in http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL, I hope it is as simple as stated there, but I am in doubt about the permalinks.

   Thanks in advance for any light.

2. samboll
   moderator
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I would consider
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
   then install and activate this plugin
   http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/

3. djsmart
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Thank you for the prompt reply, great finding about the plugin, I'll definetely use it.
   If you permit, I'll ask one more thing:
   Durinh my search, I found this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

   1- Do you think is safer and easier to accomplish that instead? The diferrence from what is described there from my issue is that all my WP files are already inside a [blog] directory, I would just have to move the blog to the root as described there if I understand correctly.
   What do you think?

4. samboll
   moderator
   Posted 1 month ago #

   that should work with the plugin

5. djsmart
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   It worked like a charm using this method http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory plus the above mentioned plugin. It was fast and easy, I hope it helps someone else.
   Thank you very much!

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