Moving Rebuilding & Upgrading my Static WP Site

  • Have a website that makes some money for me and I am going to put it over on a different/better hosting service (as an add-on domain at BlueHost).

    BUT – as I move it I am going to make some improvements and the whole thing might take a couple weeks in my spare time.

    HOW do I make sure that when I change the DNS from one hosting to another that everything is in place? I will work on the site while it is https://www.ZarksSite.MyotherSite.com I am concerned mostly about graphcs and photos being where the site thinks they are.

    Is this a relatively simple thing to do! Or am I over thinking it?

    I am NOT a skilled WP person – just happens this site is in WP but I like how it looks and works and its reliability.

    What do I need to do to make sure all is well when DNS is changed?

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  • BlueHost should be able to give you a temporary URL and you can use that to setup the site and test it on. There really is no way to be 100% certain that everything is going to work just exactly as you want it to after you change over, but you should be able to reach really close to 100% if you do it properly.

    Test it with the temporary URL, make sure it’s working perfectly.
    Then, before changing the NameServers, update your site’s WordPress and Blog URL in Settings > General

    Then do a search and replace to find all instances of the temporary URL in your database and replace it with your real domain name itself.

    Then change your NameServers and wait for DNS caches to update.

    If you need help moving your WordPress over see: Moving WordPress
    And: Moving WordPress(BlueHost)

    There should be some search and replace plugins you can get and run to replace the temporary URL with your domain. You can also try the following in the SQL tab in PHPMyAdmin:

    UPDATE wp_posts
    SET guid =
    REPLACE(

        guid,
        "255.255.255.255/~something",
        "www.newdomain.com"

    );
    Thread Starter Zzark

    (@zzark)

    Thank you! I’ll check out the links too.

    I appreciate your guidance and will follow it.

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