Comments on: WordPress Plugin: Update URLs

By: gotword

gotword — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:44:05 +0000

Im having a problem, when I moved files to a new directory and used blue to update the files url. Instead of it updating it, it just added it to the current url. so now i have this : http://http//gotwood.ws/wp-content/uploads//2011/14//2011/06/gwstore.jpg,

when it needs to be http//gotwood.ws/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/gwstore.jpg

By: mercadder

mercadder — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:43 +0000

Hi, I hope you can help me with this:

Old links in google and other websites get 404. How can this be resolved?

Old site: mercadder.con

New site: blog.mercadder.com. (adon domain)

Thank you.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:57:10 +0000

Thanks! You just saved me a whole lot of time updating image links. My donation is on its way!

By: mercadder

mercadder — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:12:38 +0000

Yes, my mistake.

The plugin have to be installed in the NEW blog. (duuu).

BTW images links were changed (i didn´t select it). So, I copied the “uploads” folder to the new blog, and resolve it.

Thank you very much. Definitelly I´ll create a post with your great plugin.

Regards.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:16:08 +0000

@mercadder: No. That means that there was only one item in your website’s content that was updated. Apparently, no other matches were found.

By: mercadder

mercadder — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:14:24 +0000

My old site:

http://mercadder.com

My new site:

http://blog.mercadder.com

I´ve installed the plugin and receive a message: Success! 1 content items. Do I have to do link by link?

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:12:22 +0000

@Edson: Sorry, our plugin does not change actual page names. All the plugin does is update domain or folder names when a site is moved.

By: Edson

Edson — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:06:43 +0000

I need change the URL of http://myblog.com/wp-login.php to http://myblog.com/login. Id this possible with your plugin?

Thanks

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:12:58 +0000

@Alex: Thanks for the observation; I hadn’t thought to manage that kind of data. The next version of the plugin will do this.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:09:48 +0000

Is not not working with serialized data.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:05:44 +0000

Great, this is exactly I was searching for. Thank you!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:14:40 +0000

Thank you for helpful post. This is exactly what I looking for!

By: Kyra

Kyra — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:07:00 +0000

Thank you! You just saved me a lot of time and playing around with mysql which I didn’t want to do!

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:13:14 +0000

I Was Looking For Something Like this!! thanks!!!!!!!

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:40:08 +0000

Ok,to be clear, lets say I have 50 links to different pages on a site but all of them start with abc.domain.com/

So for example abc.domain.com/pageone
Abc.domain.com/pagetwo
And so on …. The only thing I want to change is the abc…. I want the full extension of the existing links to remain the same with the only change being the “abc”.

Would I do that the way you mention above? My concern is that I don’t want to just have the root domain … I need the full URL.

Lastly, this makes the changes to the HTML right? Because all my links use anchor text

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:47:44 +0000

Hey thank u for the quick reply.

Ok,to be clear, lets say I have 50 links to different pages on a site but all of them start with abc.domain.com/

Would I do that the way you mention above? My concern is that I don’t want to just have the root domain … I need the full URL.

Lastly, this makes the changes to the HTML right? Because all my links use anchor text

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:34:38 +0000

@Jimmy: Yes, this plugin will help you. All you would need to do is put in the old subdomain – abc.domain.com – and then replace it with the new subdomain – xyz.domain.com.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:24:31 +0000

Hey everyone,

what if I just need to replace a portion of a url globally?

For example, if all the links I need to replace started with the subdomain of “abc.” and I just want to replace the subdomain of “abc.” with “xyz.” to make the updated urls read xyz.site.com/whatever…..

Can this plugin do exactly that and mass replace the subdomain while leaving the rest of the link in tact?

By: Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:34:46 +0000

Thanks for the plugin, one question, not sure if it’s different than some of them, but, I am building a wp site on a subdomain of a wordpress site domain. The one I’m building is going to replace the one it’s subdomaining off of. Will this plugin do that? Example
www.mysite.com (working blog)
this new blog will replace that blog
www.mysite.com/yoursite

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:30:52 +0000

@mindmunch: I am glad that this fixed your problem. Thanks for the feedback.

By: mindmunch

mindmunch — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:21:38 +0000

^ Just solved the problem above.
Just needed to rename the “blog page” permalink to the older name (called “blog”, by the way) and it fixed the issue. I had the blog page permalink changed in the first place as an attempt to solve the problem this plugin fixed in a second. So, yeah, thanks again

By: mindmunch

mindmunch — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:51:50 +0000

Hi, thank you for your awesome plugin. I had a problem were the images on my posts were pointing to an old address (ie: “www.site.com/imgs/”) and this plugin fixed it. Now the images are showing on the post. However, when I click on a image on a post to make it appear larger in another tab, the browser looks for it at the old url (“www.site.com/imgs/”). If I run your plugin again to remove the “/imgs/” from the URLs, it will fix the “when clicked images” but break the “images on post”. Do you think there´s a workaround this? If not it´s ok, as it´s a fair trade as the “make it larger when clicked” isn´t THAT important, but if there´s a way to fix this I would love to know. Thanks.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:42:16 +0000

@Keith: Your problem is exactly why we created the plugin in the first place. When we develop websites on temporary URLs, this plugin fixes the problem prior to launch. All it does it update the URLs for images, links, and other media that you might set up when developing the new website. If you were just to transfer the DNS without updating the urls, the site would still work fine, but there would be links to that temporary url which aren’t ideal for the user experience or for SEO.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:47:35 +0000

Hi Guys
I have a potential problem and your plugin may be just what I need.

This is my problem:

My client’s existing site is a static site, not a wordpress site.
Domain name of existing site is… http://www.the-chiropractors.co.uk/

I have set up a wordpress site on a different server and will shortly point the DNS settings away from the old static site to the new WordPress site.
New wordpress site will have the old domain name but be on a different server.

I can access the new WordPress site, before the DNS has been transferred, via a temporary URL code which my web host has given me.
Temporary URL takes the form http://host.qxxxxx.net/~username.

When I transfer the DNS, will it cause problems with the database?
i.e. will the temporary URL cause problems.

By: mbc

mbc — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:32:57 +0000

I have a problem with sidebar images not showing up, and my server manager gave me the suggestion that the urls were pointing to our old domain name, (mbcarpentry.com which we have now switched to markbrandoncontracting.com), so i did some research and came across your plug-in and tried it, but the problem still persists. I was wondering if this problem should have been solved by your plug-in, or if I should be looking for other reasons why the sidebar images will not load?

Thank you!

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:27:56 +0000

@Perry: The plugin does not modify your admin pages in any way. As for when to use the plugin, it can be used before or after the move.

Regarding your screen being a ‘complete mess’, I suspect that it has something to do with not updating your WordPress settings under Settings -> General. (Be careful, as you can lock yourself out of the admin area, but if you are changing the location of your site, you will need to update the Site Address and the WordPress Address.)

By: Perry

Perry — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:03:50 +0000

Hi,

This looks like exactly what I need, but I wanted to check with you first. I have a wordpress site that is currently on http://my-domain.co.uk/wordpress

Once it looks the way I want it to, I set my web hosting subdomain redirect so that www.my-domain.co.uk would point to the my-domain.co.uk/wordpress folder, mistakenly believing this would take the site from offline to online.

What happened is that all the links and pictures broke, which I now understand is because of absolute web addressing, and wordpress not being able to find the ./wordpress folder anymore

So, I wanted to use your tool, but you say I should install it and use it after I have moved the site (set up the subdomain redirect). How do I do that, because the screen is a complete mess after I have changed the subdomain? Do I just log straight into the admin page, and will that still work normally? Does the login and admin pages not use explicit links?

Thanks…Perry

By: AJIT BHANDARI

AJIT BHANDARI — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:53:52 +0000

Hello, i have installed wordpress ta domain.org, but i need to have domain.com as main domain (domain.org i wolud lik to be parked) of that installation. If ponit name servers (domain.com) to hosting where is wordpress installed would by blog work??

By: Ali

Ali — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:06:47 +0000

Amazing. Thank you so much for a great plugin. Have made a small donation to the cause; the first plugin I’ve donated to – I like it that much! And helped me sort out a problem that has caused a bit of a headache in the past to say the least )

By: Adrenaline Films

Adrenaline Films — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:23:37 +0000

Love the plugin. This will save me a lot of time.