Build blog first and use it as main site later?

  • Hi,

    I am new to WordPress and I have a newbie question.

    I am a graphic designer and I’ve been having a portfolio website for a while. Recently I decided to make the structure of the site as blog by using WordPress. It will take me a while to integrate the entire site into WordPress system, so I am thinking to first build “www.mydomain.com/blog”, then once it’s complete I want to replace the entire old site with the blog site (meaning https://www.mydomain.com will be my new blog site and the old site disappear).

    If you are building a regular site you can build it on your desktop and once it’s done you can upload but since building WordPress site is all based on online I don’t know if it’s possible to move it like that.

    If anyone has done it please let me know your experiences and thoughts. Much appreciated. Thanks bunch!

    Agent D

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  • You can easily do as you suggested. When you have everything working in the subdirectory /blog or whatever, all you have to do is modify your index.php file and move it and the .htaccess file to the root.
    Read about it here:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    Thread Starter agentd

    (@agentd)

    Hi,

    Thank you for your reply. My only issue is that the all the rest of the urls will show up as “www.mydomain.com/blog/newpage.php”. I don’t want people to see”blog” once they are in the site. Can I simply move the content in the blog folder to the root directly and reset? Would that be possible?

    Please let me know. many thanks!

    Agent D

    Thread Starter agentd

    (@agentd)

    Hi,

    Thank you for your reply. My only issue is that the all the rest of the urls will show up as “www.mydomain.com/blog/newpage.php”. I don’t want people to see”blog” once they are in the site. Can I simply move the content in the blog folder to the root directly and reset? Would that be possible?

    Please let me know. many thanks!

    Agent D

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