Title: I accidently changed my URL Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # I accidently changed my URL * [TakeOnEnglish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takeonenglish/) * (@takeonenglish) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/) * I accidently changed my URL on my wordpress template. My website was located at [http://www.TakeOnEnglish.com/es](http://www.TakeOnEnglish.com/es) but I changed it to [http://www.TakeOnEnglish.com](http://www.TakeOnEnglish.com) thinking it was the correct thing to do. Web designers were working on my website but I decided to do it myself. * I have tried logging onto my FTP from FileZilla and I copied across the wordpress file to the server as it wasn’t there and I couldn’t find the functions.php folder as the theme I chose ‘boldy’ was not there on the server either. * Please can someone give me some advice on what to do as I cannot enter the site or wordpress admin. Thanks in advance….. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/page/2/?output_format=md) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351272) * Change the urls back. See [Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL) for details of how to do this correctly. * Thread Starter [TakeOnEnglish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takeonenglish/) * (@takeonenglish) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351275) * I’ve been trying that since yesterday and nothing happens…… I entered define(‘ WP_HOME’,’[http://takeonenglish.com/es’](http://takeonenglish.com/es’);); define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’[http://takeonenglish.com/es’](http://takeonenglish.com/es’);); * on the wp-config.php, there is no theme functions.php on the server… * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351278) * > there is no theme functions.php on the server * Try looking in the wp-content/themes/boldy folder. * Thread Starter [TakeOnEnglish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takeonenglish/) * (@takeonenglish) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351281) * is there another way to change the url because I edited the folder with the code and nothing happened? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351285) * Have you removed the 2 added lines in wp-config.php? Were you using any caching plugins? * Thread Starter [TakeOnEnglish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takeonenglish/) * (@takeonenglish) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351286) * No, I added the lines, then saved and refreshed the page a few times, re-booted my computer, deleted cookies and tried again. I haven’t added any plugins to the template as I just started using it * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351288) * Remove the 2 lines from wp-config.php and add the relevant lines to your theme’s functions.php file. * Thread Starter [TakeOnEnglish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takeonenglish/) * (@takeonenglish) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351290) * how do i acccess the themes functions.php file? do I need to upload it to filezilla? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351292) * You need to access the wp-content/themes/boldy/functions.php file via FTP, yes. * Thread Starter [TakeOnEnglish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takeonenglish/) * (@takeonenglish) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351294) * I cant find wp-content on filezilla * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351297) * It is in the same folder as your wp-config.php file. * Thread Starter [TakeOnEnglish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takeonenglish/) * (@takeonenglish) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351299) * I uploaded that separately…… I took over the site from the web designers so maybe that’s why it isn’t there. * [Fathi Arfaoui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fathi-arfaoui/) * (@fathi-arfaoui) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351314) * you have made a mistake with wp-config.php Just try the same solution and add** www** to your url. Add this code to wp-confing.php: * define(‘WP_HOME’,’[http://www.takeonenglish.com/es’](http://www.takeonenglish.com/es’);); define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’[http://www.takeonenglish.com/es’](http://www.takeonenglish.com/es’);); * Thread Starter [TakeOnEnglish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takeonenglish/) * (@takeonenglish) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351323) * I’ve done it finally thanks, there was a separate folder called es for some reason. Thanks for the advice 🙂 * Thread Starter [TakeOnEnglish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takeonenglish/) * (@takeonenglish) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/#post-4351325) * spoke too soon. The wordpress log in page came back but it wont accept my user name and password and the website is still not showing properly… any ideas? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘I accidently changed my URL’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [boldy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/boldy/) * [changed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/changed/) * [server](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/server/) * [url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/url/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 16 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [TakeOnEnglish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takeonenglish/) * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-accidently-changed-my-url/page/2/#post-4351333) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics