Migrate my website from one domain to another

  • Okay so I have two websites. My main company website on 123 Reg and my other company website on WordPress. The WordPress one is obviously so much easier to use. I used the WordPress app on 123 and changed the directory so it went from (example) https://www.mywebsitename.com to https://www.mywebsite.com/site (my chosen word.)

    The thing is I still want the website to be https://www.mywebsite.com but I also want to edit it on WordPress. Can I have my cake and eat it?

    I wanted to keep the original name as it sounds better without the /site and because it is linked to all of our social media/work emails.

    Also am I right in thinking that if I wanted to keep the https://www.mywebsite.com/site I would have to rebuild the site from scratch as there is no way of transferring all the data from the https://www.mywebsiter.com.

    Any information would be most appreciated. Keep in kind I am an absolute novice so please try make your replies idiot proof.

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  • The thing is I still want the website to be https://www.mywebsite.com but I also want to edit it on WordPress. Can I have my cake and eat it?

    Yes, we can have the cake and eat it too.

    To transfer example.com to WP powered site

    1. Good practice, save the whole current site using httrack.com and keep it somewhere
    2. In your current web/domain host, register a subdomain: dev.example.com
    3. Install WP in dev.example.com and develop the theme and put in content
    4. Once ready, delete everything in example.com
    5. Copy over everything (files/database) from dev.example.com to example.com

    The 3rd step can be a local dev (in your computer using XAMPP, or similar software). The last step is a little technical, we need to change domain and WP url in database, there is a plugin for that. If the dev site is online, some webhosting company can help with that, ask yours.

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