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Move WordPress To The Root

Last updated on January 7, 2018
Posted on April 2, 2010

How to move wordpress files from a subfolder or subdirectory in your webserver to the root.

After i made a video guide how we move our wordpress from the root to a subfolder or subdirectory, this screencast inspires me making this video about moving wordpress to the root.


I personally would prefer having all my wordpress files in a subfolder but there are things you should consider before you move to your blog to different folder or directory:
1. Check the destination directory, and make sure, that you don’t have same files.
2. You must know that it will hurt your SEO because the permalinks or the links that you have built, will obviously change.

Excuse my voice as I caught a bit flu πŸ™

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Comments

  1. cah ndeso says

    April 2, 2010 at 7:59 am

    Very interactive, great information and can be used as reference material for beginner bloggers.
    This tips are reverse of the previous tips. Something like that?

    • Kimi says

      April 2, 2010 at 8:45 am

      Hey cah ndeso,
      ya, a reverse of the previous post πŸ˜€

  2. darahbiroe says

    April 2, 2010 at 9:12 am

    makasih banget
    tutorialnya nuy
    sangat bermanfaat

    berkunjung dan ditunggu kunjungan baliknya
    makasih
    πŸ˜€

    • Kimi says

      April 2, 2010 at 5:06 pm

      Hey darahbiroe, Thanks ya, udah berkunjung ;D bentar lagi berkunjung ke tempat kamu haha,
      salam dari Jerman πŸ˜€

  3. cah ndeso says

    April 3, 2010 at 5:21 pm

    come back at night. I hope you stay healthy state.
    want to give a little information, google pagerank update held today. and pagerank this blog is 2
    .-= cah ndesoΒ΄s last blog ..NgeBlog bersama Free Domain dan Free Hosting =-.

    • Kimi says

      April 3, 2010 at 10:47 pm

      Hey cah ndeso, is that good or bad? LOL

  4. cah ndeso says

    April 4, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    I just can say, that’s good conditions and congratulation

    • Kimi says

      April 4, 2010 at 5:07 pm

      @cah ndeso, thank you very much, i just googled it, they are from 0-10 πŸ˜€ greetings!

  5. Ata says

    June 8, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    Very helpful video. Will bookmark this for future reference.
    Will check out your other videos.
    If you can make more videos on SEO, that would be great.

    • Kimi says

      June 8, 2010 at 2:15 pm

      @Ata, Thank you for the encouranging comment πŸ˜€ I would love to learn more and post some videos in the future.

  6. pondicherry says

    June 11, 2010 at 6:52 am

    hi kimi , once again thanks, nice video and i was searching you can my site, i moved from main domain to subdomain, thanks

    • Kimi says

      June 11, 2010 at 6:59 am

      @pondicherry, soooo happy that it works!! πŸ™‚ and you are very welcome pondicherry:)

  7. rbrianforrester says

    March 11, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    Thanks for this post. I was setting up a temporary wordpress site for a client while we build out his new site and this tutorial saved the day. Now I’ve got an SEO friendly wordpress site in the root folder doing some work while we complete work on the final design. Sweet!

    By the way, some of the other videos I found on this subject were no where near as clear, simple and fast as your was! Thanks again.

  8. John says

    October 1, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    Can you help me please? I following everything you said bt it is still not working.
    My site is http://bestwaystogetexback.info.
    I changed it into http://www.bestwaystogetexback.info/ and the problem occurred.

    • Kimi says

      October 1, 2011 at 7:50 pm

      Hey John!

      Welcome to this blog.

      Well this tutorial is not for your case.

      This tutorial is moving from a subfolder to the root, let’s say, your older blog address was, yourdomain.com/wordpress, and you want to change it to yourdomain.com

      and not without www. to a site with www.

      To achieve what you want to change, I have wrote this:

      https://www.wpvidz.com/with-or-without-www-wordpress-blog/

      That’s exactly what you need, but only if you are familiar with htaccess file, otherwise, you shouldn’t play with it.

      I suggest you to contact your host for a help.

      I hope this helps

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