If you work on a test site for your new wordpress website there comes a point when you need to make the site live and move from the test folder and into the root. There are a few steps to follow but it’s straightforward and the only time consuimng part is waiting for the many wordpress files to upload.

1. Firstly take a backup of your test site folder. If something happens at least you can restore everythign back to the original state and try again.

2. Copy all the files of /blog folder into the main root of your site. Make sure you copy the .htaccess file too. Make sure you remove and index.html folders or index.php and any image folders that do not need to be there.

3. Open your wp-config.php file of the files you just moved over to the root folder and the line below, it needs to be added towards the base of the page and will be the last define statement:

define(‘RELOCATE’,true);

when you have done that save the file and upload to the root

4. Now open your browser and open the page http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-login.php and enter your admin login details.

5. In your admin area go to the General Settings and make sure in WordPress address (URL) field, you have http://www.yourdomain.com and remove the url placed in the Blog address field. Make sure there is no trailing “/” in either of the fields.

6. Check your .htaccess file in the root directory and make the content like this:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Once this has been done you are now ready to test, you may notice that some images placed in your pages have been broken, all you need to do is click on each and point them to your new folder, you will be able to do this within the media library. Or alternatively you can leave your wp-content folder/uploads intact within your subfolder and remove all other files.

Any new images you place in your site will be uploaded to the root upload folder.

7. Finally again open wp-config.php and remove

define(‘RELOCATE’,true);

save the file and upload.

all done!

I’m thinking about installing this mobile plugin for Wordpress that transforms the blog content from a Wordpress site into an iphone application styled theme, looks quite good, the plugin page states it will also work for Android powered phones and Blackberry, but if these phones and platforms already have internet browsing capability i’m not too sure what the point of it all is.

Maybe it’s just the snazziness of converting the blog content into an app?

I’ve been watching a lot of Limmy lately both on youtube and the new BBC tv series. Some of it washes right over my head and leaves me a bit bemused, but then there are sketches that have me chuckling away after the programme has finished. I think he is probably ahead of his time, and it’s good to see something a bit different on TV. Wonder if anyone out there thinks he will get a second series?

At work recently we were discussing Stefan Sagmeister and one of the pieces of work that came up was a poster for Adobe created with coffee cups, working to a small budget they took over a whole floor space of an office, filled 2500 cups of coffee and shot the work from above. The tones of the piece were created with differing shades of coffee, some with more milk and others with less. Recently this same technique was used in at the Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia to recreate the Mona Lisa with coffee measuring 20 feet high and 13 feet wide. The result is stunning and works really well as a piece of street art.