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1. light888
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am migrating my old HTML website to a new WordPress 3.0 installation. I am copying and pasting all of my articles by hand into new WordPress posts. This works well enough, but the image link in the new WordPress post is still pointing to the image on the original website.

   Having to manually move all the images (or other files linked in the old website, such as MP3s etc.) and then update the links by hand will take forever.

   I would think there should be some kind of plug-ins or utilities out there that could, while the administrator is creating a new page or post, automatically identify links to external files and import them into my WordPress Media Library.

   It would also be extremely useful if such a plug-in or utility could run through all existing pages/posts that are already on my site and perform the same.

   Does anyone know if there already exist any ways to do this?

2. racer x
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/

   You can do it manually through the database. Not for the faint hearted though. http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/12/01/search-and-replace-in-wordpress-mysql-database/

3. light888
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   That's not quite what I needed, but thanks for the reply.

   After more extensive searching, I have found a plug-in designed to do exactly what I wanted:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-linked-images-to-gallery-v01/

   Unfortunately it seems to have some bugs that are preventing it from working correctly. Hopefully somebody will be able to remedy them at some point.

4. alfh
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   light888, impressive plugin you found, though for me it only did half the work - images are still having links to my old site.

   Any way to unlink images in several posts in one go?

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