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Moving WordPress From a Sub-Directory to the Root
Back in the day I used to set up regular HTML websites in the root of a domain and then install WordPress in a /blog directory. I rarely do that anymore for a couple of reasons.
- I got Artisteer and started designing my own themes. With a few plugins, I can make them look just like a standard website, if that’s the way I want to roll. Plus, there’s no coding! I used to spend days tweaking on HTML templates to build my sites and keeping them synchronized, but those days are gone.
- I also learned that WordPress is so efficient at things like SEO and pinging blog services that I get far more traffic to my blogs than I ever did to my HTML sites. I also don’t have to mess around with sitemaps, because a plugin takes care of that.
I could go on and on. But anyhoo, I have a blog that was giving me grief. I basically abandoned the root of the domain where the old HTML files were and ran it strictly from the blog sub-directory using a redirect. FrontPage extensions used to be installed in the root and I think it was causing a problem, even though I had removed them. No amount of cleaning up after myself was made the blog run any better. It was either slow to load or didn’t load at all. It “flickered”. I know, a real technical. I’d be viewing posts then suddenly they wouldn’t load. And just as suddenly they were back. All the other blogs on that server ran fine.
So I decided to move the WordPress installation from the /blog directory to the root. I did this once before with another blog and had with no problems. I dug up the same guy’s video I followed the last time and thought I’d pass it onto you. It works.
