Moving wordpress file to new directory

You all give the people asking the questions entirely too much credit.

@sweetangst: Don’t you think that’s just a little condescending?

And I feel changing the 2 values may not cause any problem since any other reference to the old URL in the database might only be to the files, which in any case would not change.

That is the precisely the problem…yes they would change! If you move wp-content from the subdirectory to root, then the url to the files stored in the uploads directory there would be changed. Also, any references included in the body of posts, pages, text widgets, etc. would also be broken.

Test it yourself. I assume you have a wp site. Dump your db and do a search/replace on your url…if your db is of any size at all, you will likely see hundreds of replacements…not just two in the options table.

Ok. I assumed they’d be relative URLs.
I’ll test it as advised by you.

Thanks much.

S.K

Ok. I assumed they’d be relative URLs

I think you will find that some are, but quite a few are not.

@sweetangst: Don’t you think that’s just a little condescending?

Yes, I do. But I’ve also seen plenty of people get answers that were WAYYYYYYYY above their heads because they asked a simple question and the person reading their question assumed the OP was already familiar with the basics of WordPress use… when in reality, he/she wasn’t and only required a simple answer.

Why do you think real tech support workers always ask you “Is your computer plugged in? Is it turned turned on?” before they actually address your question? You are assumed to be an newbie until proven otherwise because if not, the tech support person might go into some long withdrawn jargon that only techies understand and the person asking the question just gives up because they think the subject matter is way beyond them.

“Angst” is part of the username for a reason.

“Angst” is part of the username for a reason.

<sarcasm and humor>Yea, I assumed that…but what’s the “sweet” for? </sarcasm and humor> ??

Thanks for all the help, ill try this tonight after work. Again much appreciated.

thanks thanks thanks!! it worked like a charm!!!

hi guys, i tried doing these steps on a new blog and now im getting an errors aying page not found, i cannot even log into my account. i get this page

https://maclaarte.org/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fmaclaarte.org%2Fmain%2Fwp-admin%2Foptions-permalink.php

any advice?

Here is a detailed guide on moving the core WordPress files to a custom directory of your blog