sandywp / plugins / go-live-update-urls

Go Live Update Urls

4.5 out of 5 stars. 4.5 59 reviews

Change the domain on your site with one click.

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v7.0.8 90,000+ installs WP 6.2.0+ PHP 7.4.0+

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Go Live Update Urls running inside a SandyWP sandbox

What you get inside

3 screens
  • Tools page. The list of tables will change depending on your database structure.

  • Successfully updated urls.

  • Update prevented due to incomplete data entered.

About this plugin

Change the domain on your site with one click.

Goes through entire site and replaces all instances of an old URL with a new one. Used most often when changing the domain of your site.

Automatically detects and handles special domain circumstances to give you an accurate update every time without side effects.

Developed and supported by OnPoint Plugins.

Features

  • Database table by table selection.
  • Updates serialized data in core tables.
  • Updates encoded URL.
  • Easy to use admin page – which may be found under Tools.
  • Works on both multisite and single site installs.

Updates Entire Site Including

  • Posts
  • Pages
  • Image URLs
  • Excerpts
  • Post meta data
  • Custom post types
  • Widgets and widget data
  • Options and settings
  • And much more

Domain Update Process

Full step-by-step instructions for a changing a site’s domain may be found here.

Included Language Translations

  • English (en_US).
  • French (fr_FR).
  • German (de_DE).
  • Spanish (es_ES).

Developers

Developer docs may be found here.

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting information may be found here.

Contribute

Send pull requests via the Github Repo

Go PRO

Our PRO version brings additional functionality to this plugin. Check out the demo to see if the PRO version is useful for you.

  • Updates database tables created by plugins.
  • Database tables are organized into simple intuitive sections.
  • Ability to choose between tables or sections.
  • Ability to convert relative URL into absolute URL.
  • Updates serialized data across any table.
  • Updates encoded URL across any table.
  • Updates JSON data across any table.
  • Ability to test URL changes before running them.
  • URL testing report is provided for peace of mind.
  • Option to fix common mistakes automatically when entering a URL.
  • View and use history of your site’s address.
  • Accessible update history including count and location of updated URL. New
  • Predictive URL automatically fill in the “Old URL” and “New URL.”
  • Real time reporting of count and location of URL which will be updated.
  • Report of count and location of URL which were updated.
  • WP-CLI support for updating URL from the command line.
  • Priority support with access to members only support area.

Questions

Where do you use this plugin?

Under the Tools menu in the dashboard there will be a “Go Live” link.

Why does updating the domain break some plugins?

Some plugins will store the serialized or JSON data in the database which does not allow for easy updating of the data. You may un-check tables used by such plugins and then update the urls manually for those plugins. Currently, the options, postmeta, usermeta, commentmeta, blogmeta, and sitemeta tables are serialization safe. The PRO Version supports updating all tables created by plugins, including ones with serialized or JSON data.

How do I know which tables I should not update?

Most tables will be just fine to update. This plugin will tell you which tables not to update.
If you wish to try to update tables mentioned as “not safe” anyway, you may:
1. Make a backup of your database.
2. Run the update with all tables checked.

If you run into trouble:
1. Restore your database.
2. Un-check tables in sections.
3. Re-run this until you find the culprit.

If you find you are running into issues with custom tables, you may want to check out the PRO Version of this plugin, which works with any table.

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