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You may need to move your WordPress blog from one directory to another directory within your web site. You will need to take certain things while changing your blog directory. Following are the step by step instruction to move your blog:

1. Create a new location using one of these two options:

1.1. If you are moving your WordPress core files to a new directory, create the new directory.
1.2. If you want to move WordPress to your root directory, make sure all index.php, .htaccess, and other files that might be copied over are backed up and/or moved, and that the root directory is ready for the new WordPress files.

2.  Login to your blog admin panel.
3. Go to the Administration > Settings > General panel.
4. In the box for WordPress address (URI): change the address to the new location of your main WordPress core files.
5. In the box for Blog address (URI): change the address to the new location, which should match the WordPress address (URI).
6. Click Save Settings.
7. (Do not try to open/view your blog now!)
8. Delete the folder wp-content/cache. This applies to WordPress 2.0 only.
9. Move your WordPress core files to the new location. This includes the files found within the original directory, such as http://yourwebsite.com/wordpress, and all the sub-directories, to the new location.
10. If you are using Permalinks, go to the Administration > Settings > Permalinks panel and update your Permalink structure to your .htaccess file, which should be in the same directory as the main index.php file.
11. If you have problems with missing images that you’ve uploaded, you need to change the path to the images on every post directly on your SQL database.
12. You must also check and edit ‘store uploads folder’ under Settings-Miscellaneous or all your new uploads will continue to go into the old folder.
13. Existing image/media links uploaded media will refer to the old folder and must be updated with the new location.

It is important that you set the URI locations BEFORE you move the files.

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WordPress provides facility to import your posts from your LiveJournal.com blogs to your self hosted WordPress blog. To import your posts,

[1] Login to your blog admin panel.
[2] Go to Tools -> Import.
[3] Click on “LiveJournal“. This will ask you to enter your LiveJournal username and password and then click on “Connect to LiveJournal and Import” button.

Note: If you have any entries on LiveJournal which are marked as private, they will be password-protected when they are imported so that only people who know the password can see them. If you don’t enter a password, ALL ENTRIES from your LiveJournal will be imported as public posts in WordPress.

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WordPress provides facility to import your posts and comments from your Moveable Type/TypePad blog to self hosted WordPress blog. To import your posts and comments, you require exporting your TypePad blog’s posts and comments in the Movable Type Import Format.

To create an export file, go to Blogs > Settings > Import/Export and scroll down to the Export section. Click the Export button to generate the export file. Once the export is complete, you will see a download link. If you are on Windows, click on the link with the right mouse button and choose Save Target As or Save Link As to save the export file to your computer. If you are on a Mac, hold down the Option key while clicking and choose the Save Link As menu option.

Once you export your TypePad posts and comments,

[1] Login to your WordPress blog admin panel.
[2] Go to Tools -> Import.
[3] Click on “Movable Type and TypePad” and follow the on screen instructions.

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Sometimes you may need to hide certain categories from your WordPress Blog. Currently there is no in-built facility available in WordPress to hide categories though there are many themes available to with this functionality. If your WordPress theme does not have this option, you will require making following changes to hide categories from your blog home page.

[1] Obtain category ID:

To obtain category ID, login to your WordPress admin and go to Posts > Categories. Click on the category name which you want to exclude from Home page. Copy the value of cat_ID from the URL.

categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=XX

XX is your category ID.

[2]Add required code in theme’s functions.php:

Now, go to Appearance > Editor and open functions.php. Add the following function at the bottom:

function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home ) {
$query->set('cat', '-xx');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');

The above code must be written within php tag.

If you want to block multiple categories, use the following condition:

$query->set('cat', '-1 -2 -3 -4 -5');

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