Hello There,

Thanks for writing and welcome to the WP world 🙂

You can work the way you’re doing it right now, there’s no problem with that. Then you can update the URL, move the files and run a few lines of SQL to fix the database.

When updating the location you’ll need to update the values in the database that have the “old” location. That can be solved with a few lines of SQL.

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://www.old-domain.com','http://www.new-domain.com');
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com');

Replace old-domain.com and new-domain.com with your locations.

With regards to files, you only have to move them from /temp/ to the upper level.

Best,
Juan.

Thanks 🙂

Have a nice day,
Juan.