Give WordPress Its Own Directory Not Working – Help

  • Resolved klpiazza

    (@klpiazza)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hi guys – I’m having a problem with giving WP its own directory. This is the first time I’ve tried this and it’s not going very smooth. Here’s the story:

    I built a site in a subdirectory:
    https://capitalfamily.com/mortgage

    While the old site was still live at:
    https://capitalfamily.com

    I followed the directions here:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    Then deleted the old site files. And now it’s sort of working but not really. I’m getting a partial site where some of my widgets and the site title disappeared. There is also some funky stuff on the admin side – like no content (text & photos) in the editor on most pages, but there is on some. Seems really weird to me.

    So I went a step further and tried the plugin “better search replace” and searched for “https://capitalfamily.com/mortgage/” and replaced it with “https://capitalfamily.com/” on _posts only, which did make some changes but didn’t seem to do anything visually to the page.

    I’m beat right now and need a little advice and a little sleep. Please help. Thanks.

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by klpiazza.
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  • Thread Starter klpiazza

    (@klpiazza)

    OK – after a few hours of sleep, the noodle is cooking better ??

    Apparently, every widget, page or description of text with a quote or apostrophe either disappeared or replaced the quote marks with a hieroglyph. Thankfully it was easy enough to recreate.

    I’d still like an explanation on why it did that if anyone knows, so this will go smoother in the future.

    Thanks again!

    Hey, maybe you just had to move the files from /mortgage folder to the capitalfamily.com folder, then change the domain with which your WordPRess is working ( as at this point it was still capitalfamily.com/mortgage).

    Changing the domain can be done by:

    – finding your site’s database name in your File manager->folder for the site-> wp-config.php
    – go to PHPMyAdmin and click on the DB name for your site
    – find the table wp_options and in it look for siteurl and home lines , where you should find capitalfamily.com/mortgage url.
    -change both lines with your new url https://capitalfamily.com

    Then comes the Search and Replace in the Database or with a plugin (e.g. Better Search and Replace )

    The article from which you followed steps is for giving your WordPress installation it’s own directory. For example when your primary site is displaying by default from your public_html, but you want the site files to be placed in a subfolder and displaying from there. Some prefer it this way as they consider it tidier when they look at their File manager.

    Thread Starter klpiazza

    (@klpiazza)

    Thanks Vladinka,
    You’re probably right. But I actually do prefer the subfolder option and was able to restore the pages that were not displaying correctly. It’s still odd at how random it was. Thanks again for taking the time to respond. I think I’ll just run with it for now.

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