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If you are moving your wordpress from one host to other host, then below are some of the things you must take care:

1. Take the Complete backup of all the files and database on your local system.
2. Make note of the domain and email accounts that are associated with, as the emails will need to be recreated on the new host otherwise the emails will start bouncing when nameservers will be updated.
3. Create the database and import the database and update the database to work on new host.
4. Most import thing is to update the wp-config.php file with the new database and databsae user details.

If you will fail to do any of the above mentioned steps, then you surely gonna land up in a big trouble

Be sure to change the name of your plugin folder back to its original name of “plugins”

Enable all your plugins at once – Once you are back in to the plugins section of the WordPress admin, and all of your plugins have been automatically disabled because of the step above, you can try this option by “bulk enabling” all of your plugins. WordPress should enable anything that doesn’t crash it and will disable any plugins that produce “fatal errors.” If any of your plugins are automatically disabled, they could be your culprit.

Enable plugins one at a time - Optionally, if you are having trouble with the “bulk enable” step above, you could try to enable each plugin one by one.

Once you identify the problematic plugin or plugins, see if they have been updated. If they have, delete the ones on your server and replace with the newer versions. Hopefully that will work. Otherwise, just leave the bad plugins de-activated until they are updated.

Hi Friends,

Recently I came across with the requirement of one of my client to upgrade his old WP 2.5 blog to latest WP 3.01, it was very straight forward and easy task. But the main concern was, that the blog was very old as we can get an idea of it by its version only, to secure all the posts and content in the database. This was not the first time I was workingon wordpress... but this was the first time when I was doing this type of version upgrading.

So before proceeding I did some webresearch on this and I got good tutorials from the web to make it happen.
So if you have a good old version of wordpress then there might be a possibility of not having the Upgrade feature as the part of WP dashboard.Generally in the current versions we can find the upgrade option under the Tools in dashboard and all can be done with the one click only.

Here are the instructions you should follow if you are upgrading your wordpress from older versions.

Before you do anything.

• Backup all wordpress files, mysql database.
• Note down the link structure of your wordpress blog.
• Note down the title tags because if you mess up, your ranking would suffer.
• Note down the database connection settings in wp-config.php
• Note down the rewrite rules in .htaccess file, if incase you have placed any.

Follow the instructions closely and since your blog will be down for 1-2 hrs so select a day or time when the traffic is very less on your website.

The following are the steps:
1. First Backup your wordpress folder and database. very important!
2. Disable all your active plugins.Its not necessary..as i didn't do it. But still it is recommended.
3. Delete your wp-admin, wp-includes folder.
4. DO NOT DELETE your wp-content folder and your mysql database. Just leave as it is.
5. Go to main wordpress folder, delete all the files including .htaccess and wp-config.php

wp-config.php —>make sure you note down the database connection information
.htaccess –> make sure you note down the extra rules you have placed.

6. Download the latest version of wordpress,unpack it in your desktop.
7. Upload to your server by FTP only the wordpress wp-admin, wp-includes folders and all files in the wordpress folder.
8. Go to wordpress main folder rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php

• Setup correct database connection settings.
• Generate the secret keys (just copy and paste)

Note: Make sure that you dont leave any blank or white space on top and bottom of wp-config.php before after php tags. As otherwise wordpress would crash with fatal error: unable to send headers.
9. Point your browser to http://yourblog.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php. You will see the database upgrade option and proceed with it.
10. Go to wordpress > settings > permalinks click, select and save the permalinks you used before.
11. Activate all the plugins and your theme.
By now you should see your site loading nicely without any problems. If you encounter any other problems, please follow the wordpress manual upgrade page.
12. Double check your title tags in your site.

By following all  these steps I made it happen. Thnaks to wordpress support as its Amazing..


Thanks,
Mayank
Coding is poetry.. it comes from heart :)

Hey Guyz,

I am coming up with some tricks that will really gonna help you. So all you have to do is just wait a bit.

My next post is coming on saturday

Till then keep learning...

Thanks!
Mayank

I needed to move a site from the sub-directory /wordpress/to the new one /blog/. I made all the possible efforts and finally I got the solution.. Below is the solution:

1. Change the settings of the URL in two places in the General settings,
2. Save,
3. Go change the name of the directory using FTP (from wordpress to blog),
4. Do a search and replace for /wordpress/ to /blog/.

Great, done. Now there will be some posts over the internet which are crawled by the Search Engines so you will just need to set up a redirect so that /wordpress/article-about-whatever/ goes to /blog/article-about-whatever/.

I uses the .htaccess file. I was hoping that the Redirection plugin could do it and it probably could, but it results in heavy data storage in database that results in slow loading of the website.. You just need to add the following code in your .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost/blog/$1 [L,R=301]

 Just use the above code and you are done...

What is Coding?? Coding is a poetry and I am a poet.

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our area of interest then only we can stand somewhere in IT industry.

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