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Power Your Domain With WordPress

Let's say you have a domain http://www.mysite.com, and let's say you started a WordPress blog in a subdirectory http://www.mysite.com/myblog/ and now that your blog is taking off, you are ready for the blog to become the initial starting page of your domain.

Here's how to move things around to make that happen.

Leave "WordPress address (URL):" alone.

Change "Blog address (URL):" to the root domain name http://www.mysite.com/.

Click Update Options.

Open your FTP utility. From the Wordpress panel, download the core WordPress file index.php to your computer.

After downloading, open index.php in a text editor (not MS Word!). You are going to change the line that reads

require('./wp-blog-header.php');

Change that line to read

require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');

(or whatever subdirectory name matches the "WordPress address (URL):" from the General Options panel.)

Save the index.php file. Open your FTP utility and upload the revised index.php to the root directory of your domain.

Done! Now when you type http://www.mysite.com you will land on your blog!

To login to your WordPress Dashboard, you'll continue to use http://www.mysite.com/myblog/wp-admin as before.

Posted by Cheryl Johnson on 01/28/2008 08:31 PM

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16 Comments on Power Your Domain With WordPress

Very cool. Thanks for the post. I am working on it now.

01/28/2008 08:36 PM

by Jeff Kessler ABR,GRI, Texas 512.801.5666 (Austin Homes Realtors)

Cheryl:

Thank you for taking the time to issue this post, it is much appreciated.

01/28/2008 08:39 PM

by Bob Force (REALTOR®) Silver Spring Md. (Weichert Realtors® - Aspen Hill/Leisure World)

Cheryl, as always a great shortcut and useful information. Thank you, WordPress guru. I also love your screen shots - makes it so much easier than reading tect.

01/28/2008 08:44 PM

by Sharon Simms St Pete Florida CRS CIPS CLHMS (RE/MAX Metro)

Oooo, I have no idea what this means exactly, but I'm going to look into it tonight. Wordpress has really good google juice!! Thanks Cheryl

01/28/2008 08:46 PM

by Maple Valley WA Broker/Owner Colleen Fischesser 425-432-5400 (RE/MAX Select Real Estate)

Cheryl, You lost me after "lets say"... Sometimes the old brain is just not ready..Maybe tomorrow when my eyes are not drooping.. I got the Ramen Soup though! LOL!

01/28/2008 11:33 PM

by Wilmington NC Real Estate Ginger & Roger Sala Keller Williams (Keller Williams Wilmington North Carolina)

Cheryl - It is nice to see that you are putting out some great tips here. I am a big fan of Wordpress.

01/29/2008 12:24 AM

by Ryan Martin - Bellingham Real Estate Agent (Windermere Real Estate / Whatcom Inc.)

Good tip Cheryl! I've become quite a fan of Wordpress and have it installed on three of my sites.

01/29/2008 08:27 AM

by Don Stern ~ Greater Baton Rouge Real Estate (Coldwell Banker Mackey )

A question I have, does this change any of the permalinks already built into the site? I have thought about doing this but was wondering about the feeds that are already subscribed to the old address.

01/29/2008 08:51 AM

by Jay McGillicuddy~Real Estate Broker (Prudential Verani Realty)

Cheryl -- OK, I have a silly newbie question. I managed to install Wordpress on a site I have hosted with Go Daddy. I did it a couple of months ago and have not had time to play with the thing and get it formatted the way I want. Now I am ready to mess with it and I can't log in.

I may be trying the wrong password (I really need a way to keep track of all of them) so I tried to reset my password, but Wordpress does not recognize my user name and email address. I don't know what else to try. . .Do I have to uninstall and try again?!?!?

I know I am off topic, but you strike me as being the Wordpress guru and I thought you might be able to help :-)

01/29/2008 10:44 AM

by Lori Gilmore - Will County Illinois Realtor (Radcliffe Realty)

Jay: I'm thinking the permalinks will work since the only file that got moved was index.php ... will have to run some tests....

Lori: Try this: At the sign in page type admin in the username box. Then click "Lost your password" I think system would email a password to whatever email address is in the system. This wouldn't work if you deleted the admin account. :-)

01/29/2008 01:10 PM

by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Thanks Cheryl -- I will give it a try!

01/30/2008 11:25 AM

by Lori Gilmore - Will County Illinois Realtor (Radcliffe Realty)

Cheryl, do you suggest integrating your blog into your personal website or do you suggest having to separate sites (a blog and a website)?

01/31/2008 07:23 PM

by Darryl Glade ~ New Orleans Real Estate (RE/MAX N.O. Properties)

Darryl -- I'll leave that to the SEO experts around here. Brad Carroll http://activerain.com/realestatewebdesign or Bobby Carroll http://activerain.com/realestatemarketing could probably give you a better answer.

02/01/2008 05:49 AM

by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

This is great information for my next blog and site - I paid someone to do this before - you rock

02/04/2008 11:52 AM

by Central Oregon Real Estate | Thesa Chambers, Broker (RE/MAX Sunset Realty La Pine)

Cheryl - Thanks for the post. Clearly the Wordpress platform has more capabilites than I am able to use and your post helped me understand I can figure it out.

Regards, Julie Jalone

02/06/2008 10:54 AM

by Julie Jalone (MagnumOne Realty)

I just started a wordpress blog today, I've seen you write about wordpress before, so I'm going to go check out those posts as well.

02/07/2008 10:16 AM

by Pam Graham- Jacksonville Florida Real Estate (Vanguard Realty, GMAC Real Estate)