Wordpress

I don’t wanna move my files from the /blog directory, I just want mydomain.net to redirect the visitors to mydomain.net/blog

well, I went to Wordpress’ General Options page and did this but it didn’t work

[wordpress address (URL): http://www.mydomain.net/blog

Blog address (URL): http://www.mydomain.net/
Enter the address here if you want your blog homepage to be different from the directory you installed WordPress.]

and since I’m on GoDaddy, my current mydomain.net page looks like this http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/1107/godaddykb1.png

Please help me and thanks in advance =(

1. Enter the following code and save the file as index.php.

<?php
header( ‘Location: http://www.mydomain.net/blog’ ) ;
?>

2. Upload this index.php to http://www.mydomain.net/

Thats it!

If you want to move your blog to http://www.mydomain.net/ instead, follow these instructions…

First upload Wordpress to http://www.mydomain.net – Its preferable to upload the same thing as http://www.mydomain.net/blog/

At this point http://www.domain.net should have all the directories and files that are in http://www.mydomain.net/blog/

Don’t delete the http://www.mydomain.net/blog/ directory yet.

Now goto,
http://www.mydomain.net/blog/wp-admin/
Navigate to the Options tab. (/blog/wp-admin/options-general.php)

And in there modify the following URLs to,
WordPress address (URL): http://www.mydomain.net
Blog address (URL): http://www.mydomain.net

Now try opening http://www.mydomain.net

If all goes well then you can delete http://www.mydomain.net/blog/

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I there a way to display my current wordpress theme and keep it up while working on and viewing another?

Assuming both themes are installed into the themes folder, you can leave your default one set, and from your control panel, you can use the view feature to check out what the other one looks like.

Hope that was of help, Jorawar.

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Is there a way to display my current wordpress theme and keep it up while working on and viewing another?

Wordpress is written in PHP, so you will need to download WAMP and Wordpress to your computer. Next set it all up following the installation of your favorite wamp solution, then unzip or install wordpress as well to the www folder of your wamp solution. Next start your server and access your local host.

You should arrive at your wordpress theme and just go from there.

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My friend put together my small business website in dreamweaver for me. However, I now want to maintain it myself—my friend recommended putting it into wordpress. However, I am not a web designer and have no idea what I’m doing—is there an easy way to convert my current website from dreamweaver to wordpress (for someone who can’t read code, etc)

Thanks!

You better begin by learning a little bit about Wordpress (which is not difficult btw). I advise you to download XAMPP to have a local apache web server (www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) where you can install wordpress (wordpress.org) and test it locally.
Then you have to chose a theme that suits your site, there are hundreds of free quality themes or if you can afford it, go for a premium theme (20$ to 150$ in general).
After you get familiar with wordpress, you can install it on your live server, put your theme, and begin importing (copy / paste ? yeah). You have to chose between putting your old articles as posts or as pages, posts are good if you plan a blog-like site. Ther’s also hundreds of free plugins for each single feature you may think about.

Good luck!

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