Moving WP from root to "/blog"

Hello,

I installed Wordpress on my domain root but now I am thinking I should use my root for more of a business "front end" and have the blog in a seperate folder. The idea being to attract more clients.

Has anyone done this, is there anything I need to look out for when doing it? I am thinking about URLs and so on. I might have to 301 redirect them?

 

you only need to change the link in the wordpress admin panel-> settings

 

All your search engine links will become 404s.. You will have to redirect them / mod_rewrite them or something.. Or suffer the losses and resubmit your sitemap to google, etc.

Chuckun

 

Thanks for that. Well it's a brand new site so I am willing to take a hit but there are only 6 posts anyway! I will also check the settings in WP, thanks!

 

Nice one, best of luck moving your blog, wizs!

 

I have not been able to move WP sites without the image paths breaking. Other than that you'll need to update any file that has an absolute path. There are tutorials on Wordpress.org to help you do this. It's not very hard. I usually do it with cPanel.