Comments on: Moving a Wordpress Blog to a New URL

By: Michael Carr

Michael Carr — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:26:52 +0000

Also, make sure you take Kerry’s advice and BACKUP your DB before running find and replace…

By: Michael Carr

Michael Carr — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:26:20 +0000

Thank you so much… my WP upload paths got screwed and your post helped a lot… The Magic of MySQL find/replace was the KEY!

By: Kerry Webster

Kerry Webster — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:59:04 +0000

Thanks for the MySQL replace syntax. That will come in handy. Another way to change the post links is to edit the ‘my_db_backup_file.sql’ prior to the restore process. Back up the .sql file before editing. I used TextPad (any robust text editor will do) and replaced the old_url with the new_url within the sql file. Used MySQL Administrator (PHPMyAdmin should work as well) to restore the backup sql and voila! everything is in place with the new_url intact. As stated above this can be dangerous. BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP. CHECK YOUR WORK, CHECK YOUR WORK, CHECK YOUR WORK.