Title: Migrate wordpress from same domain
Last modified: June 14, 2020

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# Migrate wordpress from same domain

 *  [letterpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/letterpress/)
 * (@letterpress)
 * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrate-wordpress-from-same-domain/)
 * Hi.
 * How can I migrate an existing wordpress to another existing wordpress, both in
   the same parent domain, but still maintaining the SAME permalink of all the migrated
   pages/posts?
 * Example:
 * Wordpress site A:
    [http://www.abc.com/](http://www.abc.com/)
 * Wordpress site B:
    [http://www.abc.com/cat](http://www.abc.com/cat)
 * After migrating B to A, all the permalink pages/posts of previous site B will
   maintain to be the same after it has migrated to site A.
 * Example if site B previously has a page of permalink:
    [http://www.abc.com/cat/how-to-feed-cat](http://www.abc.com/cat/how-to-feed-cat)
 * After migrate to site A, the page above will still have the same permalink on
   site A, ie: [http://www.abc.com/cat/how-to-feed-cat](http://www.abc.com/cat/how-to-feed-cat)
 * I’ve tried methods likes create a category called “cat” on site A, then parking
   that page “how-to-feed-cat” under category “cat” etc, the URL does shows eventually
   shows as “www.abc.com/cat/how-to-feed-cat” on Site A wordpress editor, however
   the live link doesn’t really work. ie I deleted this page (www.abc.com/cat/how-
   to-feed-cat) on site B, to ensure no conflict, and ensure that page (www.abc.
   com/cat/how-to-feed-cat) on exist on site A, it still does not work. Shows as
   page not found on live URL
 * Any help is much appreciated.
 * Thanks.
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).

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 *  [peterv74](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterv74/)
 * (@peterv74)
 * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrate-wordpress-from-same-domain/#post-12981975)
 * Hello
 * About “How can I migrate an existing WordPress to another existing WordPress,
   both in the same parent domain, but still maintaining the SAME permalink of all
   the migrated pages/posts?”
 * If you are doing this to create a staging site it would be good to use the softaculous“
   create stagging” button, it comes with a “push to live” button to make it even
   simpler and have a choice to select the domain from the ones registered at your
   account or as in your case, same domain but using another subdirectory.
 * If you are running a personal project and you want exactly what you say, you 
   can set custom permalinks at settings, permalinks, custom structure, alas this
   will only affect the post permalinks.
 * In order change the pages permalinks use this plugin “Permalink Manager Lite”,
   look for it at the dashboard, plugin, add new.
 * If you choose the same name of a populated directory and you enter the address
   in a browser the files inside that directory will have priority over the ones
   at the starting web site and the page will be loaded setting all the links like
   the home page to the ones at the directory; if the files at the directory are
   moved, then the ones at the site with the edited permalinks will work as they
   should; the things get more complex if you choose to have the same dashboard 
   users names and passwords at both sites.
 * Enjoy your test.
 * I hope this can be of use to you.
    If you need more details or advice post again.
   Best regards.

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