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Search-and-replace plugin for WordPress
February 25th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I recently moved a client’s website site from a subdomain to a real domain space on the same server, and later found that all (several hundred) images were still pointing to the old subdomain folder in their URLs. I tried doing a search and replace query in phpMyAdmin, but the characters of the URLs generated errors.
Rather that try to educate myself on SQL queries, I took the easy route and looked for a WordPress plugin. I found one by Mark Cunningham and Frank Bueltge called, appropriately enough, Search and Replace. It worked perfectly, and my database changes were completed in about .0067 seconds. Naturally, if you plan to try it, back up your database first.
For info, see Frank’s site (German) or for English, try the WordPress download page for the plugin.
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