How to Move Wordpress Directory

We just released a plugin which updates all permalinks and links after a move. Previously, the only option was to do this manually via an SQL query.

Check out the plugin at: http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/wordpress-plugin-update-urls/

Thanks for the article.

I used this successfully to move a newly created blog from one directory into another under the same main directory. I did run into one issue with your instructions.

You start of saying "The first step is to create the new folder and then copy all the files from the older folder to the new one."

Then after I completed this, two paragraphs later you state: "If you want to work everything just fine, don`t move the files before making the changes with the Wordpress address."

So is the first step really the first step?

For those others who head here for answers, what happened to me:

Preface: I just created my first blog site, and in the process created a really stupid directory name. I thought as long as I made this mess early, I would try to move my site to a new location with a better name and learn how to make this magic happen when I could not really damage anything.

To move the site, I first created the new directory and copied all my files into the new directory using the host provider access to the site. Then when I hit paragraph three in the article I went back and deleted all the files I just created.

Then I went into the original blog administration panel and changed the settings over to the new directory as it says in the article, even though it did not exist anymore. Upon saving changes, the blog manager errored out, because of course the new directory did not exist. I hit back in my browser, and then logged out of the blog administration window.

I went back to my host administration tool and created the new directory and copied across the files as explained in the article. I then checked to see if the new site existed using my browser, and it did. I logged into the blog site administrator and double checked the settings had taken, and they had. Finally I went back to the host administrator and deleted all the files from the original blog site.

So far everything is fine.

PS - It there is an update to this article pls post a link. This article still appears very high when searching for help using Google.