Tuesday, August 15th, 2017

The decision to change prdesign.work to prdesignwork.com

In this example I will show how I used the Polya Problem Solving Technique to figure out how to transfer my WordPress website site smoothly from one domain to the other.

Understand the Problem

Identify: Input / Outputs

• Duplicated Site/Folder Structure
• MySQL Database

Devise a Solution

• Copy Folder from FTP
• Take SQL Dump
• Create new Database , User, and Permissions
• Go through SQL and carefully update all instances of old domain, with the new, and save the new SQL as the name of the new Database
• Upload Folder to New Hosting
• Update wp-config.php to use correct Database and User
• Export Theme settings
• Import Theme settings

Carry Out the Solution

• Working from the Outside In, and my solution worked flawlessly.

Reflection

• Ensured Correctness by testing site
• Point old domain to new domain
• Looked at Google Analytics to create Redirects for old pages.
• Didn’t Repeat Myself
• Will use the same Technique for future sites!

Obviously it’s working because you are on the site reading this blog post!