Re-establishing a WordPress URL after a successful import to a temporary URL

MattShepherd

I know this isn't a WP support forum, but looking for insight...
I have successfully exported (Duplicator Pro) a website at thiswebsite.com, and moved it over to test the transition at thiswebsite.mydomain.com on Opalstack. I understand that what I can do now is:

create the thiswebsite.com domain and site at Opalstack and attach the thiswebsite app to the site and domain
re-point the DNS at the Opalstack nameservers

At that point, the DNS should re-resolve to Opalstack, it should find the thiswebsite.com domain and site at Opalstack, and connect to the app.

What I'm not entirely clear on is how to ensure that the site itself starts delivering pages like thiswebsite.com/about and thiswebsite.com/news instead of thiswebsite.mydomain.com/about and thiswebsite.mydomain.com/news, and so on.

Is there an additional step to "re-establish" the domain propagation using the "correct" URL? Is it as simple as just changing the site URL in WordPress' dashboard / Settings / General, or is there something I need to do in wp-config.php or elsewhere?

sean

MattShepherd updating the site URL in the WP admin is usually sufficient.

The exception could be if you have hardcoded URLs in your posts, image tags, etc. In those cases you may need to update all of the stored URLs in the database, either via a plugin (there are many) or the WP-CLI search-replace feature.