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How To Change Site URL Of A Wordpress Snapshot?

Posted on October 12, 2020

I’m going to do some major changes to my Wordpress theme. So wanted to clone it and work on it there.

I can install the Wordpress clone snapshot on another Digitalocean droplet. But how can I change the domain name there?

It’s redirecting to me my original site.



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Change WordPress URL: How to do it without messing up Login to WordPress. Open the existing page or create a new page. Enter a Title if necessary. Save the page, this will automatically create a URL. Look directly under the title field, you will see Permalink: followed by the URL. Click the Edit button behind the link. Type in the new URL and click OK. Save the page or post.

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