Question:
My blog address is toyama-tokanawa.com/wordpress. I want to change it to toyama-tokanawa.com/blog. I’ve tried changing it several times, but I’m doing something wrong. Need help.
Answer:
WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), often used as a blog publishing application, powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system.
In order to change the name of the WordPress blog from “Wordpress” to “Blog”, Wordpress has to be installed on your server; in other words, it has to be WordPress.org, not WordPress.com, which is hosted on the WordPress servers.
1) Login to your wp-admin and go to your Options
2) Type in your new path (in your case mydomain.com/blog)
3) Save it. (you will / should get an error)
4) Go to your CPanel or FTP and rename the folder to match.
5) Go to the new wp-admin url (mydomain.com/blog/wp-admin/). It SHOULD come up now.
Note: If the images on your blog (header, post images, etc.) are hard-coded, you’ll need to replace “wordpress” with “blog” in the link to each image. You can also use the Search and Replace plug in to do that for you. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/.
Have fun.
