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How To: Change Your WordPress URL
Posted in: Tutorials by Brad Williams on July 6, 2009
There are two places you need to update your WordPress URL when you plan on changing it. They are both located under the General > Settings SubPanel. Update the “WordPress address (URL)” and “Blog address (URL)” values to the new URL for your website.
This is a great tip if you are launching a new or rebranded WordPress website. Development can happen on http://new.mydomain.com until you are ready to launch.
Optionally if you would like to update this value directly in your WordPress database just run the query below. Make sure you update the value in the query to your new domain before running:
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'http://mydomain.com/' WHERE option_name = 'siteurl' OR meta_name = 'home''