I had to do a find and replace a string on all of the wordpress post. This can only be done via a MySQL query and won’t take more than a minute.

This is how it’s done. In the following example, I will be finding X and replacing it with Y

The string will find X in every single post and replace it with Y. This also works with phrases, URLs etc..

update wp_posts set post_content = replace(post_content, 'X', 'Y')

301 Redirect is considered as a permanent redirect compared to a 302 redirect which is temporary. Therefore when moving wordpress to a new domain, it is a good idea to redirect all the posts to the new domain.

This way all the search engine records will be kept intact and this means you won’t lose any traffics / hits to the website.

This doesn’t mean redirecting from nishv.com to fnode.com, it will also redirect every single URL associated with nishv.com to fnode.com.

For instance, if a user is looking for a particular post and goes to nishv.com, they will be redirected to the corresponding post on fnode.com

Here is an example of one of the most popular post on the site…

http://www.nishv.com/2007/06/02/make-bisoncam-work-on-windows-vista/

When users clicks on the above link, they will be automatically redirect to

http://www.fnode.com/2007/06/02/make-bisoncam-work-on-windows-vista/

This way, the user won’t notice the domain change because it is 99% directed via search engine or linked URL.

This method is also a good way to let GoogleBot to know that the domain has been moved permanently from nishv.com to fnode.com

Here is the code below and I used which goes into the .htaccess file. All you got to do is to replace the URL to make it work with your own domain.

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.nishv.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.fnode.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# END WordPress

I have finally decided to move this wordpress blog to the parent domain (www.fnode.com) and going to be concentrating on more Tech, Online, News, and Reviews and I have decided to use this domain for mainly Journals and Tip / How-To purposes. I think that way, I can separate the media side of things from personal journals.

This is how I moved my wordpress blog from nishv.com to fnode.com

• Install wordpress on fnode.com
• Went to nishv.com and copied the wp-content Directory and replaced it with the Directiory on fnode.com (So all the theme, plug-in and the uploaded contents are all there…)
• Went to nishv.com and used phpMyAdmin to drum an .sql file of the database. (You may prefer .gz depending on the file size)
• Went to fnode.com and used phpMyAdmin to drop all the tables on the wordpress database.
• Imported the backed up database from nishv.com

Ran the following SQL Queries…

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://www.nishv.com', 'http://www.fnode.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://www.nishv.com','http://www.fnode.com');
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://www.nishv.com', 'http://www.fnode.com');

That’s it, All set, now you can tweek the blog!