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Hi Joe,

Yes I did manage it in the end, It was a while ago and I haven’t used wp much since but if I remember correctly I had to do it through the control panel for the site and create a subdomain. This meant I could work on the new one without affecting the old one;

So if the site was https://www.testsite.com I created a subdomain under https://www.testsite.com/newsite

It did work for me whilst I was using it however I never made the new site live to replace the existing site so couldn’t help you with that part.

Hope that helps!

Okay, I just didn’t know if it was even a possibility?

I didn’t do much with it, just created the sub domain through the control panel word press section then started adding pages etc. that’s pretty much it, I didn’t touch anything else or even download any plugins.

It just panicked me a tad in case it was something I had caused.

We are trying to contact them at the moment.

I just wanted to make sure it couldn’t be anything to do with the sub domain I created.

Basically I need to know if its my fault!

That’s great thank you! now I’ve got all that sorted I just need to build it!

Hello,

Just to clarify;

I now think I understand but wanted to check!

If I go onto my control panel, and create a sub directory of my existing site (i.e. https://www.website.co.uk/testsite)

Then start creating my new site through that whilst the original site (www.website.co.uk) keeps running and is left untouched.

One question I do have is once the new site is ready, is is possible to then swap it over to the original domain and loose the /testsite?

Thank you again for the help!

Okay,

thank you for your help.

Okay, thank you.

So just to check;

The control panel for the existing site is eXtend cp.

So would I have to go onto ‘My SQL Databases’

then ‘create a my SQL database’ prompting me to enter a username and password.

Do I also need to create a new ‘installation directory’ for wordpress on eXtend CP?

Hope that makes sense…

Do you mean I would just need to create a new database so it doesn’t effect the old one?

Ok, Ill give that a go.

Thank you

Yes I did it for my own website.

um, okay.

I’m not really sure how else to explain what I need help with.

I would like to make a new website from scratch for a domain that already has a website up and running.

I need to make the new one whilst leaving the old one still functioning.

So that when the new site is ready, I can swap it over and make the new one live and delete the old one.

I have no idea at all how I do that!

So I could do with a step by step process on how to do that. And if i need to create a new WordPress folder somewhere I could do with some more details if possible.

Sorry if it still doesn’t make sense! i’m trying!

Okay, I need to create a new version of an already existing site through wordpress.

As in create a new one whilst the old one keeps running.

Sorry I’m a bit confused by the ‘access the folder one for development’ part?

Create a new wordpress folder (presumably on my hard drive) and then what would I need to do?

Hello,

I need to create a new site on wordpress whilst leaving the old site (also on wordpress) untouched and running.

Thanks

Hello,

Yes it took me ages! basically what I did was went to my webpage, right clicked (in Chrome) and used the “inspect element” button to see the lines of code.

As it shows you which bit of code is for what part of your site I was able to home in on my logo and menu.

Then I changed the code to centralise the lot.

After that I went to the source tab of the “inspect element” window, copied all of the code then pasted it into the editor section of the Divi Theme on WordPress.

Seems to be working so far anyway!