Title: Moving WordPress from Example.com/wordpress to Example.com
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Moving WordPress from Example.com/wordpress to Example.com

 *  [mcography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcography/)
 * (@mcography)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-from-examplecomwordpress-to-examplecom/)
 * So I downloaded and installed WordPress in a folder within the root of my domain(
   example.com/wordpress). I worked from that location in order to keep example.
   com (which did not use WordPress) functioning while I built the new version. 
   Now that my version is ready to go, how do I move WordPress so that example.com
   loads my new site? Do I simply change the Site Address in General Settings from
   [http://example.com/wordpress](http://example.com/wordpress) to [http://example.com](http://example.com)?
   Will that take care of it?
 * I’ve been looking at various articles, including [this](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
   and [this](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory), but
   I am not sure which directions to follow. This is the first WordPress site I 
   have built for a client, so I’m a little nervous. I really appreciate any help!

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-from-examplecomwordpress-to-examplecom/#post-2636508)
 * Read “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install” in [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)

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