• How do I change the path name for my blog? It was automatically assigned “blog1” and I want to use a more descriptive name. I haven’t been able to figure out how to do so. Thanks.

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  • ok so lets say your blog is at
    yoursite.com/blog1

    you want it lets say yoursite.com/myblog

    ok you need to change a few things for it to work

    1.
    this is in your database:
    two fields in the wp-options table
    first one is the “siteurl” option and than “home” option
    change those two to the new link

    2. make sure in the ../wp-admin/options-general.php

    WordPress address (URL)
    and Blog address (URL)
    are the address you need

    Isn’t that a bit overcomplicating…?

    It has been posted zillion times:
    1. admin > Settings > General:
    change the 2 URL values to what you want to have
    2. Save, don’t worry about the error message
    3. Don’t try to see your blog!!!
    4. via FTP rename the “blog1” folder to what you put in at Settings
    5. Done.
    (you may need to reset your permalinks after this)

    oops sorry, moshu is right, i forgot to say the most basic change the folder name too wow i am a moron

    Will the steps posted (in the 3rd post) above also work in this instance…
    original path name is: blog.example.com
    desired path is: example.com/blog

    Thanks for your help. I’d love to have advice before making the change. I’m inexperienced and temporarily lost access to my blog earlier today, so I’m feeling a little more cautious.

    Thank you for the link, iridiax. I appreciate the help.

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