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1. sg_press
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   A while back when I was setting things up I installed wordpress in a subdomain, eg:
   blog.domain.co.uk

   at this point I was just planning to use wordpress for the blog, and use something else for the main site (eg: http://www.domain.co.uk). But now I'd like to use wordpress for the main site as well - and i'm not really sure how to proceed.

   Ideally I'd like to avoid having to maintain and update 2 instances of wordpress - but i don't think my current hosting plan allows wildcard dns.

   I've looked at loads of documentation, but none seems to be exactly what i want, and everything seems to have a pitfall.
   My blog doesn't have a huge amount of traffic, but i'd prefer not to lose any google ranking and incoming links, which i might do if i move it. But without moving it, i can't see how to do it on one installation. And even if i do move it (for example to http://www.domain.co.uk/blog) i'm not sure of the best way to proceed.

   Maybe i'm overthinking this - but there doesn't seem to me to be any good solution. :-(
   Any suggestions?

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Probably the easiest way would be to build a new WordPress network install on your root http://www.domain.co.uk and then export/import your existing blog. That way the new site in root is the main site, and your old blog becomes Blog #2.

   You SHOULD be able to keep subdomains, though I think you have to use parked domains instead, if you can't use wildcard. Other people have done that.

3. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yep.

   can set up multisite in the root, use subdomains but make the subdomains manually. some people have had success.

4. sg_press
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the help. I realised I was overcomplicating things.

   Turned out to be pretty easy once I realised I was confusing myself with the whole multi-site thing. As I wanted a blog as a sub section of a wordpress-driven website, i finally realised I didn't need multiple sites at all - just needed one site with the home page set as a Page, and the posts index in the /blog/ subdirectory.

   Finally a 301 redirect seems to work for pointing all the old pages at the new ones. (though it does change the URL in the browser, but i don't think i can get around that on free hosting.)

   Cheers for the help though.

   Refs for anyone with a similar issue:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
   http://yoast.com/move-wordpress-blog-domain-10-steps/
   http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/4068.htm

5. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yep, if you only needed a front page and a /blog/ multisite is waaaaaaaaay overkill and single WP does it already.

   glad you figured it out.

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