Switching to a Wordpress site...

[bhursey]

they dont know what they are talking about. all you do is change your domain to the name servers your hosting site has. Like I have an adress through go daddy back in the day. I went into the managment console and changed the name servers to my hosting companys site... So on godaddy I put ns1.dreamhosts.com ns2.dreamhosts.com and so on. It takes about 24-48 hours to resolve and propigate through the web. btw .net is for networks not single sites.

[Niresangwa]

Originally Posted by bhursey

they dont know what they are talking about. all you do is change your domain to the name servers your hosting site has. Like I have an adress through go daddy back in the day. I went into the managment console and changed the name servers to my hosting companys site... So on godaddy I put ns1.dreamhosts.com ns2.dreamhosts.com and so on. It takes about 24-48 hours to resolve and propigate through the web. btw .net is for networks not single sites.

It would seem that whoever wrote the first ticket reply didn't know what they were talking about. I received a second correction overnight that hopefully will resolve the issue...

thanks all!

[Biomech]

Meh, it's a lot easier than it sounds, and that plugin sounds good. I guess when you do things on auto pilot you forget what they are like

[KristineMN]

It's been my experience that godaddy has the most confusing setup and staff that have no clue what they are doing. I've had to call them more than once to tell them how to fix a hosting accounts of clients.

Godaddy has instituted a new feature called preview dns that allows you to build your site with an alternate temporary domain until you are ready to go live. I had set a client up with this not long ago and it worked relatively decently. Itll be previewdns.yoururl.com so your regular domain will continue to work on your original site. The only issue I found was that when it finally did get switched to go live on the regular domain, godaddy didn't fix the links to any content loaded in Wordpress. (permalinks, images etc) Because of this (and godaddy tech support couldn't help, lol) there were a lot of broken links and missing pictures when it went live after the previewdns expired. It was an easy fix for us, just ran a script in the sqldatabase to find and replace all the previewdns urls in the installation and content. While it was a simple fix, it should have been something godaddy did and anticipated. Frustrating. The point of my rant (and sorry for the length, lol) was that they do have an option and if you did like you mentioned before with the .net as a temporary you basically just do the same thing as I described above to search and replace the URL after the DNS points the final domain to your finished site. There's a lot of info on the Wordpress site to help as well.

I set up ours on Wordpress too because I needed something my non-web-savvy husband could update on his own too. It works pretty well.