Today I performed the daunting task of moving my blog from www.kristarella.com/blog/ to www.kristarella.com.
I’d been thinking about doing this for a little while. There’s lots of good blogs that use their home directory. There’s lots of blogs that don’t use the home directory, often with hope that they’ll use their home directory for something more profitable or important. I was the later until I realised that my blog is my website, it’s my main content and I already link to my photoblog and deviantArt page from there. The static homepage wasn’t adding anything. Plus, WordPress is pretty flexible – if I wanted to change things around, change how the front page content was displayed etc, I could do that in the future without having my blog in a whole other directory.
In the beginning I said “daunting task”, but having read the right articles it only took five minutes. There’s docs on moving wordpress that help.
So people don’t get lost, links to .com/blog are being redirected to .com. The info in the comments for David Airey’s post helped with the redirecting. Apparently RSS feeds will also be redirected by the .htaccess commands, so that’s nice. 😛
Key steps for moving your blog directory
- Change the blog address in the WP options
- Move the files to the new directory
- (Login to wp-admin at new address) If you have custom permalinks, make sure they’re correct
- Set up redirection in your .htaccess file
- Change pertinent links on other sites, e.g. FeedBurner, Delicious, MyBlogLog
It’s surprisingly easy! Of course that doesn’t mean it’s something you want to be doing all the time. Pick a place and stick to it, unless you have really good reason to move. 🙂
