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How do I change my name on this website?

How difficult is it to change the name of a website?

  • I have a website which is still pre-launch, however, it is fully built. Naturally, the name and logo - as it is now - are everywhere; the website, the automated emails, the domain (of course), Companies House (UK-based) etc. I have now decided to take the site in a different direction and, therefore, want to change the name. Simply from a coding perspective, how difficult is it to change the name? It needs to obviously change in all of the places it currently appears. The manual edits such as TOU, PP etc I can do but how much of a task is it on the coding side to change in the other areas named above? If it helps, the site is written in php. I'm non-tech by the way so sorry if anything sounds ignorant or idiotic.

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    Depends on how you wrote it. If all the messaging is centeralized, you will just need to change the name in one place. If it's spread out, you will have to change it everywhere. It's impossible tot ell without looking at the source Most people don't change the name of their company often. As a result, most programmers generally don;t think about putting the name of the company in a central location If your site is in PHP, you probably can just do a text search on all the source files. It shouldn;t take more than 10-20 mins to find how many changes are required.

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I would download all the files, and do a search and replace (textpad will let you search and replace in all open tabs) search for http://old-domain.com replace with http://new-domain.co.uk and then upload. Remember, if you have database data, you need to change that. phpMyAdmin has a search and replace tool that should suffice.

John Smart

I've only had to do this once and I used this free tool. https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/. It basically finds every instance of a text string and changes it to what ever you like in a couple of seconds. This could be a url or anything you like.

Jack Karter

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