{"id":24159,"date":"2018-09-25T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/?page_id=24159"},"modified":"2024-10-18T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T12:23:51","slug":"change-name-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wordpress-tutorials\/change-name-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the Name of a WordPress Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have thought that the name of your website is the best that it can have but sometimes, a situation occurs, and you might find out that you made a mistake, or a different name would fit better to what your website is about.<\/p>\n<p>When that happens, you need to know how to change the name of a WordPress blog, so you won\u2019t struggle to search for that option, and you\u2019ll be able to focus on the important things\u2026 as creating content, and marketing your website.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bear in mind that changing the name of your website could and probably will, at least in a way, affect your <a href=\"\/blog\/on-page-seo\/\">SEO<\/a> efforts. Yet, this effect won\u2019t be so dramatic, granted, you don\u2019t change the name website, altogether with its identity. Meaning, if until today, you were blogging about technology, is not a bright move(as far as SEO is concerned) to rename the website to \u2018best cat videos\u2019 and start writing about and sharing cat videos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That said, if you want to slightly change the name of your website, you need to know how to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s find out!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How to change the name of a WordPress Blog<\/h2>\n<p>The best part about this task is that the creators of WordPress have thought about this possibility a long time ago, and thus, there is no need to <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/add-plugin-wordpress\/\">install a plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To change the name of your WordPress blog, you have to <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/enter-wordpress-admin-panel\/\">go to the WordPress Admin Panel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, hover over the <strong>Appearance<\/strong> option, for the submenu to show up. When the submenu shows, choose the <strong>Customize <\/strong>option.<\/p>\n<p>That same effect could be acquired by clicking on the <strong>Themes<\/strong> option or <strong>Appearance<\/strong> itself \u2013 which will give you identical results \u2013 both will lead you to the <strong>themes.php<\/strong> page. \u00a0Under the active theme, you\u2019ll see a blue <strong>Customize <\/strong>button. To go to the customization menu you need to, evidently, click that button.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/install-wordpress-theme\/\">How to Install and Activate a Theme<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24209 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Theme-options-300x73.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve briefly covered the topic of the WordPress name, knowns as Tagline in WordPress. Here you can read more about that and <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/customize-wordpress-theme\/\">WordPress theme customization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you are on the <strong>customization page<\/strong>, choose the <strong>Site Identity <\/strong>option.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24210 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WordPress-Tutorial-how-to-change-the-name-of-your-WordPress-blog-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To change the name of your blog, you need to change the so-called tagline.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24212 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WordPress-Tagline-change-before-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24211 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-best-WordPress-Tutorials-191x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now you know <strong>how to change the name of a WordPress blog<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Want to learn more?<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/delete-theme-wordpress\/\">Delete WordPress Theme<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/first-steps-part\/\">WordPress Basics \u2013 Part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/lets-talk-posts\/\">Let\u2019s Talk About Posts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have thought that the name of your website is the best that it can have but sometimes, a situation occurs, and you might find out that you made a mistake, or a different name would fit better to what your website is about. When that happens, you need to know how to change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>\u00a0azar13<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customization"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Change the Name of a WordPress Blog | WordPress Tutorials<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Are you about to make changes on your web property? 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