Most Effecive Way for Changing WP Domain

We found this to be the best way to alter URL for a WordPress URL.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

Here you can see we set the DNS at our registrar to our host.

Here are our subdirectories at our host.

Finally, we finish off by creating forwards, that take the main domain and send it to our subdirectories. This allows us to have multiple WordPress blogs all hosted at the same account.

Moving Folders in WordPress

Being able to move and rename folders where WordPress is located is an important capability. For instance when you start a blog, you may not know what the eventual folder will be. Housing your WP installs in different folders allows you to have multiple WPs per host. However, the documentation on moving and renaming folders on the WordPress.org site does not appear correct. We spent a great deal of time trying to figure this out. We finally found the correct documentation here….

http://www.endgamepr.com/blog/2007/05/11/how-to-change-your-wordpress-blog-to-a-different-url/#comment-7323

This includes a critical correct point regarding adjusting the .htaccess file.

On additional thing to do, which is not listed in this article is to change the media folder to your new folder. You do this under Miscellaneous.

WP Maintenance Advantage

Maintaining websites prior to blogging software as a serious problem. Since not a very high proportion of the entirety of web content has been moved to blogging software, the problem continues. The reasons are including the following:

1. Inherent maintenance design of web software
2. Requirements to integrate CMS and web design software
3. Inability to provide collaboration for the markup and development of content
4. Focus of web creation software such as Dreamweaver on the design side of the equation
5. A lack of understanding of website maintenance issues

This results in websites either breaking or with content being less updated and relevant that it should be. Many of the principles of an efficient and low maintenance web were proposed by Tim Berners Lee over a decade ago (such as naming conventions for URIs, the ability for users to publish as well as read from the web with their browsers, etc). However other, more immediate commercial and self centered paths were taken. Because of these poor decisions, the web is greatly retarded from where it should be. Google’s back-linking algorithm saves the web from many of the poor information design decisions that were made. However, popularity is not everything. Many search results that are popular, but of low content and low quality beat out much better content in the Google search rankings. 

It is no mistake that many news sites using blogging software, however, it is clear that this type of software is relevant for all types of sites.

Reference

Interesting exherpt from Tim Berner Lee’s testimony to Congress on the future of the web.

“These traditional barriers fall away because the cost and complexity of a link is unaffected by most boundaries that divide other media. It’s as easy to link from information about commercial law in the United States to commercial law in China, as it is to make the same link from Massachusetts’ Commercial Code to that of Michigan. These links work even though they have to traverse boundaries of distance, network operators, computer operating systems, and a host of other technical details that previously served to divide information. The Web’s ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network. Other open systems such as the mails, the roads or the telephones ” – Tim Berners Lee 

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/03/01-ushouse-future-of-the-web.html

WP Backup Plug In

http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database#Using_WordPress_Database_Backup_Plugin