How to move your WordPress Blog without loosing readers

Do you want to move your Wordpress weblog with a different domain name ? But don’t want to loose your readers. So today I’ll be teaching you a simple trick which will redirect your visitor from your old blog’s posts to their new ones.

Demo: Try to visit http://www.thila.ropage.com/index.php/2006/05/ you will be automatically redirected to http://www.tech-buzz.net/index.php/2006/05/

Ingredients: Text Editor (Notepad will work), FTP Manger.

  • Move your entire blog to your new host. Podz has a nice tutorial on Moving WordPress Blog
  • Create a file named index.php and paste the code given below:

<?php

header(‘HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently’);
header(‘Location: http://www.newhost.com’ . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
die(“We’ve moved! Click here please: <a href=‘http://www.newhost.com” . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . “‘>http://www.newhost.com” . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . “</a>”);

?>

Note:  Don’t forget to change http://www.newhost.com to your new blog’s URL

This post was published by on July 2, 2006

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur kapoor

    Really helpful article , will definately come handy someday .

  • http://www.blog.tech-buzz.info Thilak

    Thanks Madhur, So Bookmark this article