I just upgrade my wordpress to the latest version. Instead of upgrade it automatically, I choose to manually upgrade and change my url from www.arejae.com/blog to www.arejae.com/blogv2. I also change the theme too.

Old vs New

I’m not sure how long I can keep this theme. I just want to test the performance first and will decide it later.

Migrating all the data from old to my new blog is very easy.

Just use export and import function from administrator menu. No need to crack your head to create your own migration scripts or use whatever ETL tools out there.

Since I change my url, I need to change my .htaccess file to make sure my visitors from search engine will be redirect to my latest url and no broken link whatsoever.

.htaccess

Redirect /blog http://www.arejae.com/blogv2

That’s it. Hope you can learn something from it.

Till then… salam.