Changing Sites on WordPress

  • So…

    I have site aaa.com running wordpress
    I have recreated the site on ccc.com also on wordpress to use as an interim staging area as I plan to switch over.

    Once all of the content has been manually recreated on site ccc.com, I plan to point the nameservers to the hosting location of site ccc.com so that only aaa.com will exist (with the wordpress database and contents of ccc.com)

    I am almost done, but the thought just occured to me – is this is easy as it sounds, or will I screw something up? If I login to aaa.com/wp-admin/ after configuring aaa.com pointing to the new nameservers, which database is it going to use?

    Also which of the 2 login credentials would I use? Any feedback/guidance would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Why not just move everything from aaa.com to ccc.com? You can even use a plugin like WP Migrate DB to run a find and replace on your database when pulling it off your aaa.com server.

    Thread Starter WPAndrew

    (@wpandrew)

    Thanks for the suggestion Andrew. I would like to maintain aaa for branding reasons. There is likely a better solution than the one I have chosen, but this is sort of the route that I am now commited to.

    My site is hosted as an addon domain which is causing problems trying to implement a subdomain with my host so I wanted change it to a primary domain.

    Also my site has over 3000 pages which makes things really slow and often crashes with high traffic. I would like to start fresh in the event there is something corrupted in the database. I am making a lot of updates to those pages via csv import which makes it easy but i would not even know where to begin trying out how to delete those pages first (my site crashes when trying to delete more then 10 files at a time.) Not to mention my csv importer only creates new pages and will not update existing ones.

    On site CCC.com I was able to upgrade the theme without losing those 3000 pages. There are actually a whole bunch of reasons why I am trying to shake the original setup. I am sure the project would probably be manageable to an advanced user, but it introduces more complications given my skill set so I am looking to go this route, if it is doable.

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