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Recently a client asked us if we could assist with a migration to WordPress – no problem, we love it! We think that it is the best platform around for managing a small or medium website. As the client already had an existing site, they wanted to set up a WordPress site without changing their domain across yet so they could migrate their content, test some themes, etc. By default, installations using QuickInstall via cPanel will setup WordPress using the domain name of the account – see the problem? How do you do this when you’re not ready to migrate the domain? Read on!

OK, this one is pretty simple and is covered in the WordPress documentation, but here it is anyway. Using PHP MyAdmin through cPanel, go to the wp_options table of your WordPress database. You need to edit the ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ fields to reflect the IP address that  you’re using to access the site. Once you’ve done that, you should be good to go – remember to switch them back afterwards, and also be sure not to use any hardcoded links to the IP address, make everything relate to the site root.