How to move your wordpress blog

There are lots of webpages where people explain to you how to move your wordpress blog to another domain, but most of those solutions aren’t complete or they just doesn’t work.
That’s why I’m going to explain you how to move your wordpress blog, I’ve tested this solution personally so don’t be afraid, this will work.

So if you want to move your wordpress blog to another domain or subdomain, follow the instructions below.

5 steps to move your WordPress blog

1. First you have to make a back-up of your wordpress database, you can do that by pressing export in your PHPMyAdmin and export it to a file.
2. The next thing you have to do is exporting all your wordpress files to the new domain and import the exported wordpress database file in the new PHPMyAdmin.
3. Run the SQL queries shown below. So, now you moved the database and webfiles to the new location, you have to change some things in the database. WordPress saves your domain on several places in their database. So you have to change those values, you can do this by running the sql queries as shown below.

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content,"www.old-domain.com","www.new-domain.com");

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid,"www.old-domain.com","www.new-domain.com");

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = REPLACE(option_value,"www.old-domain.com","www.new-domain.com");

UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = REPLACE(meta_value,"www.old-domain.com","www.new-domain.com");

So, now you’re done with moving your wordpress blog. If you still have problems with visiting some webpages on your blog, you have to do the following:
- Log in the wordpress admin panel of your wordpress blog.
- Go to Settings.
- Now just click on Save Changes.

If you still have problems you can ask me by posting a comment below, ofcourse.
I hope you find this post usefull and it helped you like it helped me.
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UPDATE: An extra tip: You can also export all your content (pages, posts, comments etc.), using the export tool (Menu -> Tools -> Export). Maybe that’s easier for the people who don’t know how to use the above queries. After that you only have to place a new WordPress installation on the new server or domain, import your theme, import your content and installing the plug-ins you used before. Good luck!