Problems after activating revised site via subdirectory

  • blondie53185

    (@blondie53185)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    We recently re-vamped a WordPress site, building the new one in a subdirectory /newsite. We’ve been struggling with 404 errors from the beginning. The instructions that were followed were:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
    and http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#When_Your_Domain_Name_or_URLs_Change

    First, we had over 200 404 errors so redirects were created. Now, we have over 400. I realize this doesn’t hurt our ranking but does the user experience.

    For some reason, I thought it may be a sitemap problem, (using Yoast). It appeared the sitemap wasn’t updating properly. I deactivated the Yoast xml sitemap and installed the simple Google XML sitemap. At first, everything looked fine but now, all 400+ 404’s are back. (It’s possible I didn’t wait long enough for Google to browse the new sitemap.)

    Does anyone have any ideas on how to correct this problem? Or, where to even begin looking? Is our only option to physically move the new site from the subdirectory to the root and see what happens?

    Thanks!
    Janet

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