Moving WP site to another domain

  • We developed a WP based website for a non-profit organization. While developing the site we used a temporary domain (acgdevelopment.com) because the organization had an existing website which we didn’t want to take down until a new was ready.
    When the new site was ready Go Daddy procided how-to information for moving from the temporary domain to the organizations permanent domain (aquaculturewithoutfrontiers.org). After making some changes in the Go Daddy admin and following the information in this article: https://help.godaddy.com/article/5712?, the site appeared to be ok.
    However, none of the pictures would display. None of the links to PDF documents would work. We ended up going into each and every picture and PDF in the WP Dashboard and change the links to these files manually.
    What could/should have been done to avoid this situation?
    I am not a database wiz so I hope we can get easy to follow step-by-step instructions so we avoid the same issues in the future. We are already in the process of developing another site for a client and don’t want the same experience when we move.
    Any help will be greatly appreciated.
    Tanks.

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  • Unfortunately, I think there’s no easy way to do this. I can’t remember what it was, but there’s some principled reason why WP’s developers like to use absolute paths instead of relative paths. When I move MODx sites to other folders or sites, its use of relative paths makes this type of switch a cakewalk. But not WP.

    [Puts up umbrella to protect himself from flaming from hardcore WP file path zealots]

    If I were doing a big change of this type, I would try some SQL queries to change everything at once via PHPAdmin. That can be a little dangerous, as you’re doing “change all”, and want to make sure that you only change image and PDF paths. But since you’re not a database wiz, what you did may have been the best way (unfortunately).

    I think there is a Plug-in that will allow search and replace of addresses. Sounds easier if one is not a database guru – sorry I don’t remember the link or name, maybe someone else will post it here.

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