New URL and Moving WordPress Blogs

Just a quick one. Stevp’s Blog has now moved to a new URL, you should now be viewing at www.stevp.co.uk .

Changing the URL required a few steps, so here they are.
First I registered the new domain name and changed the site’s DNS entries to point at my web hosting server.
Here I created an “Add-on” domain. This gives my new URL a subdomain within my existing site and points the new address at it.

Now onto moving WordPress Blogs. Well this was easy, I followed the instructions from the WordPress site.

• Change the URL in the WP Settings section to the new URL
• Copy all of the data from the old subdomain to the new
• Put an html redirect in the old location, so people can still find this page
• change any specific link that reference the old URL, such as for pictures

Easy as that.