Are you giving new Name to your Baby, Blog?

Posted by on Jul 13, 2011 in Blogging | 1 comment

As you all know we were previously working as Shanker Bakshi but few days back we shifted to Net Profit Mantra. Just don’t ask why we do that but Shanker Bakshi dot com is now used as Shanker’s personal blog and Net Profit Mantra is also an awesome name, isn’t it? It is been in the mind of Shanker Bakshi to change the domain name.

You must have noticed there is not any change in the blog other than logo or domain name today I am sharing our experience how we switch our baby to a new name, simply we just change its name only and the steps are just like 1 2 3 so read ahead and discover yourself how did we do that

Select a good name then buy a domain and configure it

Backup your blog files, you can use simple ftp back up or WordPress users can also use to great plugins WordPress Database Backup or Back Up Buddy is my all time favorite for back up and then reload the files with new hosting and domain.

These Steps are baby steps and anyone can follow this even a non technical person so there is not any risk of losing anything.

You can use following steps for Migrating any Blog from the following platforms Movable Type and TypePad, Live Journal, Blogger and WordPress.com to WordPress.org

You can also migrate a blog from RSS feeds

What to do with the Old Blog

  • Login to the Dashboard
  • Install WordPress plugin called “Redirection” to help 301 redirects.
  • Then go to Tools >> Export
  • Chose All Content then click on ‘Download Export File’ to your directory on your computer.
  • Use FTP client to download the wp-content folder, this is a very precious piece of your blog because it contains all your content.

How to Configure New Domain

  • On your Web Hosting download a fresh copy of WordPress
  • Use FTP to replace the wp-content folder of the new WordPress copy with the old wp-content folder which you have earlier saved in the previous steps
  • After then configure your WordPress
  • Login to your Dashboard
  • Import the Exported files by following these steps Tools >> Import then select your previous platform which you want to convert and Install the Extension
  • Browse your wp-content Files and Upload them

And you Got everything back!

The Life of your Baby Blog is Save. We have done it

Remember we have suffered a great lost in losing our tweets and Facebook fan Page like so support us and like our new Fan Page too

Fill the Below Areas with your Experience and Was it an Easy Method for you.

Are you going to Transfer your Blog now as it is ABC

One Response to “Are you giving new Name to your Baby, Blog?”

  1. Animal Transportation says:
    October 12, 2011 at 5:02 pm

    Currently I don’t want to change any of my client’s blog name. But thanks for sharing this post. I Got new knowledge from it.