[wp-forums] Users changing their site urls: idea

[Mika A Epstein]

If it was in All Options, we'd have to send rookies there to install WP in a subfolder, and ... That scares me quite a bit, actually. I try to never tell them about that, since it's the fastest way I've found for the newbies to blow everything up.

I think the 2-step to change is a nice idea, but I don't know if it will help people. Or rather, I don't know if they'd read it. Kind of split on it, myself...

FWIW, Under Consideration is the default setting. I do punt things to Duplicate, Not Core (like for things about plugins or the website) and such, but I tend to leave most of them where they are. (Mostly I delete spam.)

On Mar 6, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Charles Frees-Melvin <charles.freesmelvin at me.com> wrote:

> What if it were to be removed in the UI altogether and limit it to the "All Options" screen where it is obscure for a basic user after initial set-up but still available for a more advanced user.
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> On 2012-03-06, at 18:31, Andrea Rennick <andrea at ronandandrea.com> wrote:
> 
>> I actually dealt with something similar just today!
>> 
>> The user had www.domain.com in one field and domain.com in the other.
>> Previewing a post would result in a permissions error.
>> 
>> nifty, huh?
>> 
>> a.
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:16 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net>wrote:
>> 
>>> "I changed the site address in General settings to http://example.combecause I didn't want /wordpress in my url and now my site looks awful and
>>> I can't log back in. Help!"
>>> 
>>> How many of these have you seen or fielded today? Personally, I've lost
>>> count of the number I've dealt with since this morning.
>>> 
>>> So if anyone else wants to wade in, or vote, on <
>>> http://wordpress.org/extend/**ideas/topic/make-changing-**
>>> site-urls-in-settings-general-**a-2-click-process<http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic/make-changing-site-urls-in-settings-general-a-2-click-process>>,
>>> please feel free.
>>> 
>>> I'm suggesting a really tiny change and it is flagged as "under
>>> consideration" but, if it did get accepted into core, I think (hope) we
>>> would see a significant drop in these kinds of posts.
>>> 
>>> Mel
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