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If you already have a website and would like to replace it with WordPress. 

1. Install WordPress in a sub-directory called “wordpress”
2. Develop your new wordpress site (at the address www.example.com/wordpress)
3. Don’t do any of your SEO configuration yet
4. When your new WordPress is ready for prime time
5. Dashboard -> Settings -> General -> Blog address (URL)
6. remove “wordpress” from the url and click Save Changes
7. Don’t try to look at your site at this point
8. Move the index.php file from the WordPress directory to the root directory
9. Open index.php file in a text editor
10. Change the line that says:
    require('./wp-blog-header.php');
    to the following
    require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
11. Login to the new location. e.g. http://example.com/wp-admin/
12. If you have set up Permalinks, go to the Permalinks panel and update your Permalink structure
13. Visit your wordpress site with the url www.example.com
14. Add all your SEO configurations (XML Sitemap, SEO Pack and Security – Allow search engines)

Note:  These instructions were adapted from these inverse instructions.

Written by: Phyllis Erck on May 15, 2010.