tinker123

How would I move wordpress to root?

Create a new blog in root, export my existing blog and import it into the new blog?

I used relative paths to my img directory in my image tags, ie:

../../img/rdmdeng.jpg

Without custom permalinks this is an example of an image URL
https://myblogdomain.org/img/rdmdeng.jpg

With custom permalinks turned on, the system inserts “blog” into the final URL to the img, braking it:

https://bundergroundrailroad.org/blog/img/rdmdeng.jpg

I have between 5 – 100 images, before I do search and replace…..and QC do you know for sure there isn’t a way to get wordpress not to stick that blog/ into my img URLs?

Is there anything special about the wp-content directory?

Thanks in advance

WordPress is such a programmer and user friendly platform!

I have learned more about this issue. I have also found a workaround. I am posting what I learned here to help people with a similar problem in the future. It is also my hope someone at WordPress sees this and decides to switch to another editor software plugin in WordPress.

The default editor in WordPress is from a 3rd party package called the TinyMCE editor.

I noticed that the font sizes from pasted HTML also shrank if I switched tabs from the “Visual Editor” ( TinyMCE ) to the HTML editor and back.

For example, this was an original line of HTML code I pasted into the TinyMCE editor:

<font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="5" color="ffff99">
<b>WHO WE ARE</b>
</font>

This is what the TinyMCE editor did to it when I switched tabs or saved:

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
color: #ffff99;
font-size: large;">
WHO WE ARE</strong>
</span>

I noticed that the CSS Style box in the TinyMCE only had font sizes go down to “9” and the pasted code had “5”. I’m guessing it did not what to do about that and since it couldn’t make the font “5” it just resized it to “large”, which had the effect of shrinking the font.

I found a plugin called “CKeditor” which is also a WYSIWYG editor, also allows me to copy and paste directly off of a web page which will save me work transfering content from the old site to the blog I made and it doesn’t redo the HTML tags so the font sizes aren’t getting clobbered.

I hope this helps someone else and spares them having to invest their time doing the troubleshooting I did.

I found it, it is called “editor extender”

I found a tutorial that showed me how to roll my own blog theme, it works, but I would like a better understanding of what I am doing.

Is there a book that explains it all?