I use Wordpress to manage my blog contents. It can take a few days to get a wordpress template and plugins set up just the way that you like them. In an effort to make this a less time consuming thing, I asked Jim, a brilliant tech guy at work, if I could simply copy and paste all of the existing files from one site that I liked and paste it at the new location. He said yes and gave me a few pointers. I just did it successfully and wanted to share it with anyone who is looking to do the same.

Here’s what I did…

• Copy my existing mysql database and gave it a new name
• Copy the entire contents of old site to new site
• Update wp-config to point to the new database name
• update siteurl and blogname in the wp-options table in the mysql database
• if you don’t know your admin password, simply update it in the mysql database… be sure to select md5 in the drop down to the left of where you type the password.
• In the options area you need to change Blog address (URL): to the new url or the “view site” link won’t work in your admin area.