Changing the domain name effects of already listed products.

joeymac83

joeymac83

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Greetings,

I am interested in changing the name of an existing site. If I clone my existing site that already has the alidropship woo plugin installed, give the site a new domain and change the auth key for the plugin, will the products I have already listed still be connected to Aliexpress, or will I have to re-list all the items?

I know this is a complicated question and I look forward to any insight.

Respectfully,

Joseph
 
Mar

Mar

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joeymac83 said:
Greetings,

I am interested in changing the name of an existing site. If I clone my existing site that already has the alidropship woo plugin installed, give the site a new domain and change the auth key for the plugin, will the products I have already listed still be connected to Aliexpress, or will I have to re-list all the items?

I know this is a complicated question and I look forward to any insight.

Respectfully,

Joseph
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The product will still be connected to AliExpress. But changing domain name will cost you a lot. You need help from your host provider in this task.
 
joeymac83

joeymac83

New Member
Thanks for the insight.

As far as the domain is concerned, I already purchased the new domain for $9.00 and will point the domain name to the name servers for free.
 
Direct Webstore

Direct Webstore

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Easiest to add the new domain as an Addon Domain via the cPanel. Unless you want to change your account main domain, in that case, contact your host support like @Mar said above. But before you do anything download/backup all your site's files and database.

Then ... Export/download (if not done already) and edit the database in a decent text editor like Notepad++, do a "Search/Replace" with the old domain and new domain (Also with the site title), then import it into the new site's database. Also re-upload all the old sites files to the new one's folder (public_html or whatever) or just move them in the cPanel>File manager if necessary, if they are still there.

You will also have to edit the database name, user etc in the wp-config.php if they have changed.

You will also have to change the logo and any other site related images and edit any Social Media page/Account URLS/Names etc, edit any Google Analytic code and do a manual search through every plugin's settings to check if anything else needs to be edited.

Exactly the same as cloning a site. I have successfully done it many times.

You could also try and find a site cloning/backup plugin to do it all. Don't ask me for a suggestion as I don't trust them. I prefer to do it manually like I described above. The time it takes manually or with a plugin is about the same.

If you stuff it up, you'll just have to start a new store from scratch.
 
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Direct Webstore

Direct Webstore

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Google "How to clone a Wordpress site" and you may find a clearer explanation on how to do it. Not a 100% clone as the domain and site titles will be changed.
 
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