How to Move WordPress from SubDomain to Root Domain

Published: 31 October 2017
on channel: Philip King (KsStepByStep)

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In this tutorial, I will show you how to move WordPress from subdomain to root domain. As a bonus, the method used here to move a WordPress site from subdomain to root domain will also preserve your SEO rankings as well.

This is the most straight forward process to get WordPress out of the subdomain and into the root directory.

define('WP_HOME','http://mysite.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://mysite.com');

http://mysite.com/wp-login.php

{IfModule mod_rewrite.c}
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://domain.com/$1" [R=301,L]
{/IfModule}

As YouTube does not allow angle brackets, I have substituted curly brackets in the above code. You will need to swap them over.

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