Best way to develop a WordPress version of your site and then move it?
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I have two websites that generate hundreds of organic hits each day. I want to switch both of them to WordPress. What is the best way to go about developing these sites then making them live while still keeping the current ones up?
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Here's another post that may be of help in moving a dev wordpress site to a live site.
http://www.billerickson.net/how-to-move-your-wordpress-website/
Some services, like page.ly (which has a new discount for pro members now! http://www.seomoz.org/pro-perks) make it real easy to do a dev site on their sub domain while your current site is still live, then switch it over after you finish everything in WP.
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Hi,
Place your wordpress install into a subdirectory like "YourDomain.com/wp/.
Develop your site
Move the WP site to the Root. Follow the instruction on http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress.
There can sometimes be issues with the image and media uploads but checking on the General Settings for the media Library pointer usually fixes that.
I build Wordpress Sites like this all the time.
Hope that helps.
Steve
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