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1. lenwood
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I'm working on porting a blog to WP. I've set up a couple of test blogs so that I can practice the data swap with dummy data.

   My question is, is there a way to change the database that WP uses after its installed?

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Presumably, you could do that in wp-config.php

3. lenwood
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Oh wow, that's so simple that it eluded me. I'll try it and let you know if I blow anything up.

4. lenwood
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Ha ha, YES you can! This is so simple and worked perfectly. AWESOME!

5. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   :-) Glad you got it going.

6. lenwood
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I spoke too soon. When I made the switch it hosed my admin area. I later figured out that I needed to change the homepage pointers, but I don't know if that would have done it or not.

   Bottom line, I don't think this is very easy.

7. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Hmm. I've done this several times, never had an admin area problem. Wonder if it's something germane to your particular host/server?

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