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Luke Mersh 
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:15
Spanish to English
TOPIC STARTER
One last request...
with wordpress, how do I remove the /wordpress from my domain name, so when people type my domain name the website appears without the wordpress part of it?
many thanks again
| | | | | Moving WordPress sites | Nov 5, 2015 |
Almost there, well done!
The URL is a combination of where you've put the files, and two WP settings on the Settings ... General page. You'll see two URLs there (one for WordPress, one for "Site"), both of which will currently have the "wordpress/" bit after your domain name.
Take out the "wordpress/" bit from both settings, save, then move all the files from that wordpress subdirectory into the parent. Your new site should now be happily ensconced in its new home, as t... See more Almost there, well done!
The URL is a combination of where you've put the files, and two WP settings on the Settings ... General page. You'll see two URLs there (one for WordPress, one for "Site"), both of which will currently have the "wordpress/" bit after your domain name.
Take out the "wordpress/" bit from both settings, save, then move all the files from that wordpress subdirectory into the parent. Your new site should now be happily ensconced in its new home, as the main website.
(If anything goes wrong, there are ways to fix that so let me know!) ▲ Collapse
| | | | Luke Mersh
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:15
Spanish to English
TOPIC STARTER | | WordPress cannot connect to host | Nov 5, 2015 |
That error sounds as if the server doesn't allow software running there to download from the Internet - you probably need to download it yourself (to your own machine), then upload it from there instead. (Use the "Upload plugin" button on the "Add new" page and feed it the ZIP file you downloaded.)
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Luke Mersh
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:15
Spanish to English
TOPIC STARTER
James Sutherland wrote:
That error sounds as if the server doesn't allow software running there to download from the Internet - you probably need to download it yourself (to your own machine), then upload it from there instead. (Use the "Upload plugin" button on the "Add new" page and feed it the ZIP file you downloaded.)
Many thanks ,
solved that too, did what you also suggested.
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