Transferring Your Wordpress Website to Your Own Domain
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You may want your domain name (website name) to be www.yourblog.com which is more professional, unique and is easier to remember and type out.
Once you have aquired your unique domain name you will need to transfer your website to your new domain.
In the past this used to be a daunting task for beginners and professionals alike.
Due to the demand of this uneccesarily long winded task a few premium and free Wordpress plugins have been created to ease the process.
I use a plugin called Duplicator which has been a huge time saver for many of the websites I have created and transferred.
But there are a few steps you will need to take to complete the process:
- Get your domain name (The address where your website lives)
- Create the web hosting account (The space for your website files at that address)
- Create a database through your hosting account and write down the details such as database host, name, user and password)
- Go to Wordpress > Plugins > Add New. Download, install and activate the Duplicator plugin
- In your plugins list Duplicator > Manage
- Create a Package then download the package and the installer
- Upload both to your site root via FTP
- In your browser type http://www.yourblog.com/installer.php
- Fill in the database details and click "Test Connection" to verify a database connection
- If the connection is Valid (in green writing) click install.
If you have not done this before you can watch an instructional video here
Good luck with your new domain and if you have any questions please let me know.
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Thanks for the info on transferring from Wordpress. I don't have a site yet but I had wondered about this.
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Thank you all for your following. I am still busy with Entrepreneur Certification training, but I guess I will mature in due course in this favorable and stimulating environment, then i be in better position to attend to live general discussion.
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Will this method work if I'm transferring content from two domains hosted at WA? I just purchased a new domain (better one with no hyphens) and would like to transfer the posts without losing the comments :/ I really have no idea how to do this.