Learn how to easily move your WordPress site from local to live with this step-by-step guide. Perfect for beginners wanting to streamline their online presence.
This course is all about making it super easy and fun to move your WordPress site from local to live. You’ll get step-by-step guides through screencasts, and before you know it, your website will be up and running for the world to see!
This course makes moving a Wordpress site from local to live easy and fun. A complete and cheap step by step guide.
Creating a local WordPress website comes with a lot of advantages like speed of development, no waiting time for uploads and easy access to the site files. However the downside is when you have to move your work of web art onto the a live server.
These screencasts show you how to buy a domain, setup hosting, move the website live and submit to Google. So enjoy these 30 minutes of screencasts and learn how to move a WordPress website from local to live.
Search for domain name and use domain suggest if you need help
Purchase the domain using services like GoDaddy or NamesCheap
Setup hosting either by purchasing a new account or doing an addon domain
Copy the nameservers details from the hosting to the domain (simmer for 10 minutes to 2 days)
Zip local files and upload via filemanager in cPanel then expand the directory
Use the phpMyAdmin to export the local database
Use Notepad++ or Mac equivalent to open the SQL file and find and replace “http://localhost” with “http://www.yourwebsite.com”
Create MySQL database, create the user, add the user to the database
Edit the wp-config and change the local details to the new database
With your website ready add the sitemap plugin and submit to the Google webmaster tools
Register for Google Apps and then add the tracking script to your theme
Double check all the pages on your site, grab a coffee and congratulate yourself
you will be able to buy a domain and hook it up to your hosting
you will be able to move a local wordpress website to a live server
you will also know how to submit your website to search engines and install analytics
Carl is the founder of Web Courses and a UX consultant for the United Nations. At Web Courses Carl teaches Web Design and Online Marketing to people from all around the world. He has been designing websites for over 16 years and is passionate about creating usable designs and creative online marketing strategies for WCB and their clients.  Accessibility is...
I was good. Thanks.
Fast and to the point
Very easy to follow.
I was looking for wordpress development however course is for already developed website to upload live. i impressed with the contain.
Excellent!! It is really nice and he showed step by step how to transfer WordPress site locally to global (hosting). Very helpful . I strongly recommend to take this course. Great course!!!!!!
Thanks every one who devote your time to give this valuable and interesting courses.
This is a very easy to understandable and very nice experience to upload web at the server.
Very Old Video but good
this nice i learned about the basic thing of the making web site and how to install database in to the host thanks for the all
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Kate B.
A bit too fast, too expectant and far too dated. But helpful if you're stuck in time I suppose :)