{"id":4984,"date":"2020-04-19T03:04:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/?page_id=4984"},"modified":"2020-04-19T17:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:45:27","slug":"how-to-change-wordpress-urls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lamp.ciscoar.com\/?page_id=4984","title":{"rendered":"How to change WordPress URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Changing WordPress URLs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If for whatever reason you find yourself in need of change the URLs of your WordPress website, there are a lot of good tools to help you on that task, in our case we’re going to use a free plugin called Better Search Replace<\/a> developed by Delicious Brains<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/better-search-replace\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Better Search Replace – WordPress plugin<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

WordPress backup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In our case, after the restore of a WordPress backup into a local Linux CentOS 7 Virtual Machine, we have to change the URLs to make them point to the Local path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WordPress website – Internet URL<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Better Search Replace plugin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The following image shows the main screen of the Better Search Replace plugin, here you must configure both the Internet URL and the Local Path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Better Search Replace – main screen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

URLs change completed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The amount of replacements depends on each website, in our case as you can see there were 1978 updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Better Search Replace – Job well done!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Local Path configured successfully<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once the plugin has done its job you can verify each and every image, all of them must point now to the local path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WordPress local copy – Images pointing to local path<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Changing WordPress URLs If for whatever reason you find yourself in need of change the URLs of your WordPress website, there are a lot of good tools to help you on that task, in our case we’re going to use a free plugin called Better Search Replace developed by Delicious Brains. WordPress backup In our … <\/p>\n

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