{"id":452,"date":"2021-06-30T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T09:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/?p=452"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T09:57:19","slug":"452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/452\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the WordPress Website Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The below steps can help you to vary your WordPress web site domain. during this example, we are going to change these to reflect a move from blog.yourdomain.com to just yourdomain.com. However, this will be accomplished between any domain or sub-domain you&#8217;ve got hosted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Note: The steps outlined here won&#8217;t assist you to move website site files for you! you&#8217;ll got to try this manually by using your FTP details. These directions can only assist you to update WordPress to reflect the correct domain name once you&#8217;ve moved your files. It\u2019s better to take a backup of your file before making any changes via FTP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Now Login to your WordPress site as an administrator.<\/li>\n<li>Click on Setting from left side menu and select General.<\/li>\n<li>Please change the WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to yourdomain.com.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the URL. For this example, we\u2019ll change the two fields to http:\/\/yourdomain.com from http:\/\/blog.yourdomain.com<\/li>\n<li>Click on the Save button.<\/li>\n<li>Please check that your target domain yourdomain.com does not exist as a folder in the domain\u2019s directory. If it does, you can use the File Manager tool or FTP to rename it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The below steps can help you to vary your WordPress web site domain. during this example, we are going to change these to reflect a move from blog.yourdomain.com to just yourdomain.com. However, this will be accomplished between any domain or sub-domain you&#8217;ve got hosted. Note: The steps outlined here won&#8217;t assist you to move website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}