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James Huff
(@macmanx)
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You can, but you’d have to modify several core files, which is not recommended and will break the automatic updater and several plugins.
Changing the admin directory will be much easier in a future release of WordPress.
Thanks for your swift reply.
I have a question along this topic as well. I downloaded wordpress from ipage to mydomain.com/wordpress and I have set up a theme that I want to show up on my actual blog site mydomain.com and I’m not sure how to get this to happen?
I already changed the settings under “General” so that the wordpress address is the mydomain.com/wordpress and the site address is mydomain.com.
What else do I need to do so that my wordpress theme is showing on my actual blog?
Thank you!
Forgive me but I’m a bit confused;
Is worpress in your root folder or in yourdomain.com/wordpress?
also,
did you select the theme as your default theme?
I’m a rookie so I hope I am explaining this correctly but I downloaded wordpress directly into a separate installation directory mydomain.com/wordpress from my actual blog which is mydomain.com ….I’m not sure which is technically called the root folder.
Does this clarify my question at all?
…and yes the theme I downloaded is showing as my “Current Theme” but when I got to the blog site it isn’t linking up
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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
You’ll have to move WordPress to the root directory following this guide:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site
Next time, please start your own topic instead of hijacking an unrelated one.
your root folder is yourdomain.com/ no folders after that
now if you want to use wordpress to run your site you should install it in yourdomain.com/ through ipage panel when you’re asked to provide where wordpress should be installed leave that field blank.
Let me know how you get on.
Thank you, I was trying to be polite and I thought this topic was along the same lines as my question. I will start my own next time but I was only trying not to clutter related topics if we were talking about the same thing. I’m new to this and was not trying to hijack anything.
Thank you Ramzijanati for your help even though I unintentionally crashed your thread.
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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
Don’t worry about it, everyone deserves a chance to make a mistake. 🙂
You are forgiven.
