{"id":676,"date":"2023-01-13T06:33:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T06:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2023-03-24T00:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:33:32","slug":"changing-your-domain-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/changing-your-domain-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing your domain name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If at any point you decide that you want to change your domain name and migrate your content, here are the steps required for a smooth transition. In this example, we will be updating my onlygingersnaps.com website to buymyrecipe.com. I&#8217;m making this change because I want to be able to expand on my recipes as sort of an online cookbook. If you find yourself in this situation, here are the steps to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Purchase your new domain name<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Setup your new WordPress site<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Log into your WordPress onlygingersnaps.com website<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to Tools menu then Export.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select the content you want to export and save the xml file<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to Media and download all media files\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you already have your files saved then you can skip this<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Log into your new WordPress site<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to Tools menu then Import\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click Install Now under WordPress<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then click the same link once it changes to Run Importer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the xml file<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then click Upload file and import<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the user to import to and any other items it requests information on. This will be based on the types of information you are importing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check the box to download and import files\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This will go to your existing site and download the files and import them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click Submit <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once completed you will see any errors that occurred and a link to see the updated website\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I received a number of error messages but my posts, pictures and comments were migrated. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My theme was not migrated<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There were some minor tweaks that needed to be done<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If at any point you decide that you want to change your domain name and migrate your content, here are the steps required for a smooth transition. In this example, we will be updating my onlygingersnaps.com website to buymyrecipe.com. I&#8217;m making this change because I want to be able to expand on my recipes as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-your-website","eq-blocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anafaskrowten.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}