Comments on: Moving WordPress to you Root

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:23:43 +0000

Awesome…so easy and worked great!

By: thexyz

thexyz — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:31:08 +0000

Easy as pie !!

By: James

James — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:31:39 +0000

Took me a while to figure out the root directory for Laughing Squid. It is the web/content folder. Got it working great with your help

By: Lindsayanng

Lindsayanng — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:01:39 +0000

You have made a very common newbie mistake. WordPress.com accounts (when you go to wordpress.com and create an account on their site for free) does NOT give you the ability to use a lot of the multitudes of templates out there and edit them and FTP to them. It seems you have two things going on. You signed up for Godaddy, but you did not set it up to host your blog because then you signed up for wordpress. WordPress.com accounts host your blog for you, and godaddy hosts a custom install of wordpress.

You will want to install wordpress on your godaddy account and ignore your wordpress.com account. Once you have wordpress installed, you will pick and theme you like and install that. If you do not already own a domain name, you can purchase one through goDaddy. then you link your domain to your godaddy HOSTING which has wordpress on it.

If this doesn’t make sense, you can skype me. I will walk you through it if you want. Linzardb on skype

By: Merrin

Merrin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:03:49 +0000

Hi
I am a complete newbie at this and nothing is making sense. I have a wordpress hosting account with GoDaddy, and I have sucessfully designed and published my WP website/blog. BUT I don’t like the .com/wordpress on my domain url. Just looks unprofessional. I do not have a FTP program. I am fairly good at following precise directions but in the codex instructions, I can’t seem to get past point 1, feels like I am missing some vital information. I am just about on the brink of paying a programmer to sort it out for me.
Any easy step-by-step instructions for WP idiots like me would be very much appreciated. (Have searched all over the web for a video tutorial but could not find anything)
Thanks
Merrin

By: ward

ward — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:26:02 +0000

Thanks for your tutorial…being a bit of a hack myself, I found it much more user friendly and practical than other instructions for moving wordpress to your root.

worked like a charm…much appreciated and highly recommended.

By: Lindsayanng

Lindsayanng — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:27:59 +0000

I am soo happy to help and thank you so much for commenting – it is very much appreciated

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:24:46 +0000

THANK YOU so much for this article! I’ve been wanting to move my WordPress blog to the root directory for the past year or so, but was always afraid to do it (since if anything got screwed up, I’d honestly have no idea how to fix it). On a whim, I finally decided to take the plunge tonight. Oh my gosh, it could not have been easier. I followed your directions, and it took all of 10 minutes. It was so painless, and everything works just fine.

By: Brian Harward

Brian Harward — Mon, 31 May 2010 04:21:56 +0000

Worked great for me, thank you so much! It also appeared to change the permalinks automatically, as far as I can tell.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:57:47 +0000

Thank you SO much for this!!! i knew i had to get my wordpress into my home directory at some stage. And this took all the pain out of it! I have successfully put wordpress in and now i don’t need a splash page which is a big YAYAYAYAY!!!!