Moving domain names with wordpress
Thursday, July 20th, 2006
For those of you that may be interested I just moved blog.brightonvibes.com over here to GuinchoGuy.com in order to merge the domain names and content to one central resource.
I guess my main goal was to clean everything up in the process and start fresh, however there would be no point just ditching all my old rankings / backlinks to the blog.brightonvibes.com address. As such I had to do 2 things.
Firstly I had to make sure that I got all the old content over to the new site and domain. Secondly I had to make sure that the old links would redirect to the correct new ones so that the information was still available from the site as before. This was actually remarkably easy on both counts:
First I used wordpress to wordpress import to get my old wordpress data over to the new site. I followed this with a quick scan through and updated of any posts along with cleaning the categories.
Then I just went to the old site and changed the htaccess to contain this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://guinchoguy.com/$1 [R=301,L]
That’s it. All links sorted and working. Do note that you MUST keep the same permalink structure in the new wordpress or this wont work, it’s a shame, but thats the way things go. Do let me know if you notice anything that is not working so that I can fix it, however so far so good.
