Title: Migrating wordpress
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# Migrating wordpress

 *  [greyhoundgames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greyhoundgames/)
 * (@greyhoundgames)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-wordpress-1/)
 * So I setup wordpress in /wordpress off my site so that I could play with it and
   not mess up my current site. Once I am done I would like my root url to point
   to wordpress. I see that you can change the url. Does it copy itself into the
   root? How drastic is this and how safe is it? My other question is does anyone
   have any best practices for dealing with my pre-existing content. For example
   I have urls that other sites link to that I will want to now link to places in
   my wordpress site.
 * These other pages are easily simplified to
    main,news,help So if I want to have
   a help section for each category in wordpress, can that be acomplished with something
   like a sub category? For example I could have a category called “Some Program”
   and I would want a help category under that, and then a seperate help category
   under “Some Program B”. Any thoughts?
 * Finally whats the best way to handle my old urls, just put a blank page with 
   a redirect to the new wordpress page?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-wordpress-1/#post-1154097)
 * Hi,
 * Refer this article:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site)
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [greyhoundgames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greyhoundgames/)
 * (@greyhoundgames)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-wordpress-1/#post-1154188)
 * I was able to succesfully move the site. However I could not find the .htaccess
   file. I checked with 2 ftps making sure hidden files were showing. Everything
   seems to be working but I just wanted verify that its ok not to have that. I 
   am not using permalinks I don’t think. Just default behaviour.
 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-wordpress-1/#post-1154192)
 * If you are not using custom permalinks or anything else “special” on your server,
   then you probably don’t need it.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-wordpress-1/#post-1154192)
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