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In WordPress posts images urls are absolute or relative to base domain?
March 12, 2015
3:57 pm
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Aahz
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Hello,

Sorry if my question would seem dumb, as i'm more of a Joomla user, and in Joomla, the editor's default setting for url behaviour is set as relative to base domain, thus when moving a Joomla site to another domain, all images inside articles are kept with unbroken source urls.

In WordPress i noticed that when i open a post with images i see there absolute urls for images, example src="http://maindomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/imgo1.jpg", which indicates me that restoring a WordPress site backup to another domain using XCloner would lead to all images in posts having a broken source url, because the main domain would change.

How does XCloner deal with this issue? How do you move a WordPress site to another domain while keeping post images source urls unbroken?

Thanks a lot!


March 16, 2015
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XCloner does not replace the absolute paths in the DB, you need to use another plugin for search and replace like https://wordpress.or.....d-replace/ for this.

March 16, 2015
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Thank you for reply. I kind of figured that out my self these days, and i think it would be a good gesture to mention that fact in XCloner documentation in regard of WordPress migration.

All the best.

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