A friend recently built her clients’ new WordPress site in a sub-folder so the old site would remain functional while they worked on the new one. Now that she’s ready to go live, she wasn’t sure how to move the new site to the main domain and asked if I would be available. I told her she really doesn’t need me. This is why.

You don’t have to move it. You only need to tell WordPress where you want your blog/site to appear to load from. It is super easy and only takes a few minutes. Just follow these instructions. Definitely bookmark or clip it for later reference.

Don’t want to do it that way or absolutely must move it?

You could do it manually. The best way I’ve found is to simply use BackupBuddy. Yup, it’s not just for backups. It is 10 times faster and easier than manual. Definitely what you’ll want when working on client sites – especially if you’re being paid by project.

Here’s a quick post about BackupBuddy’s restore process if you want to learn more how that works.