change of URL lost access to dashboard

  • Hi, I’ve just tried to change my site name myenglishupdate.com to a new name livetolearnuk.com

    However, once I clicked saved, it timed out. Now I cannot access my dashboard for my old site or new one.

    I am not great with technical terms so if anyone can help explain what I need to do (in simpleton terms) i’d be really grateful. Thanks

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  • Hello, seth10, & welcome. First, thank you so much for providing a site url. I suspect you have no idea how incredibly helpful that is to the support forum volunteers trying to help you. Wish everyone would do likewise.

    There are a couple ways you could do this. The best way, most likely is to use something like PHPMyadmin to edit the wp_options table of your database (that’s the default table name, your prefix, ie, whatever is before the underline, may differ). You should export all the tables first as a backup. PHPMyadmin or a similar program is generally provided in your hosting provider’s control panel.

    If you don’t feel comfortable doing that, then you can open your wp-config.php file & add the following lines above the “stop editing, start blogging” part.
    define(‘WP_HOME’,’https://example.com’);
    define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’https://example.com’);
    where example.com should be replaced by myenglishupdate.com.

    An article for your reference is here:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

    Please note that if you use the 2nd method, you’ll not be able to change your site url in the dashboard anymore.

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