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Hi Joe-
Thanks so much for your post about static home page on WordPress Thesis – so clear and simple to follow!
Can you write a post about transferring a WordPress Thesis site to a new domain (with a different host)?
Or even a post about how programmers/designers create a new website in a test environment and then tranfer it over to the live domain?
Thank you!
Jacquelyn
Hi, Jacquelyn–
That’s not something I do very often. I do almost all of my website development online with WordPress using the Thesis Theme. I recently moved a blog from one directory to another on the same server, which was pretty easy. WordPress provides instructions on moving a WordPress blog on the same server or to a different server. See “Moving WordPress.”
One thing I did find confusing is the WordPress Address (URL) and Blog Address (URL) settings in WordPress. If you mess up the WordPress Address (URL), you end up in all sorts of trouble, because you can’t even log in to change it back. I found some instructions for running a PHP script to change it back, but there’s a much easier way on BlueHost using phpMyAdmin. I’ll probably write about this sometime in the near future.