Domain Switch

  • I’ve changed the domain name of my site (using the same host), with the old name parked and pointing to my new one. All’s fine, except that my old posts have images with addresses that direct to the old domain name. That works for now, but I’d like to do away with the old domain name eventually. Is there a way that I can change the links in my posts to the new address without having to manually edit about 500 of them? Please?

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  • one way you can do that is export your database and save it in computer and then open with a editor like notepad++ and search and replace old domain name with new one save with some other name just in case so you have backup and import the one you changed with new domain name back.

    Thread Starter mrtvlamp

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    Hmm… that might work! I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!

    Thread Starter mrtvlamp

    (@mrtvlamp)

    I don’t know much about the WP database files….this is sort of scary! Following the suggestions in “CODEX WordPress Backups”, I exported a .sql file to my computer. I then opened it with TextEdit (I’m on a mac) and replaced the old domain name for the new throughout the document. So I need to rename my original .sql to something else as a backup….then what do I do with my text file, give it the name of my original .sql? What do I do after that? Thanks in advance for your help!

    Once you made the changes you can go back in phpmyadmin and click on import and click on browse find the .sql file you made changes on and click open you will file in box and click Go

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