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Make changing site urls in Settings -> General a "2 click" process

1. esmi
   Inactive

   One of the most common forum issues is "I accidentally changed my site urls and now I can't login". In many ways, changing the site urls through the UI is too easy and too many non-technical users end up in trouble.

   What about taking a leaf out of Firefox's book? Try to get into about:config and you get a warning that you have to click past. It should be possible to implement a similar popup if someone tries to change the site urls in Settings -> General. Given that genuine url changes are relatively rare, this would constitute a minor inconvenience to tech-types at worst but it could save a lot of panic and heartache elsewhere.

   Posted: 8 years ago #

2. MarcusPope
   Inactive

   With my plugin

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/root-relative-urls/

   you won't get locked out of the admin if you accidentally change the site url. Just navigate to the site via the ip address, and you can get back in without any problems.

   Getting the ip address of your website is as easy as searching "ip address of mysiteurl.com" in google. Then just navigate to

   http://173.201.216.112/wp-admin/

   and you can log back in to change the site url back to whatever it was. This wasn't the main intention of the plugin per se, but it is certainly a common use of the plugin for developers.

   Of course it requires you to enable the plugin before you lock yourself out. But I've added the feature to my todo list so in the future you'll probably find a plugin that does this and only this, perhaps along with other lock out recovery options too.

   Thanks!
   -Marcus Pope

   Posted: 8 years ago #

3. esmi
   Inactive

   Nice plugin idea but, in this situation, it's rather like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

   I must have handled a good 12 or more support posts today where people have been locked out because they messed with the urls without really knowing what they were doing. And that's just me on one day. Multiply it by 5 or 6 and perhaps you might begin to see the scale of the problem.

   Posted: 8 years ago #

4. WP Voyager
   Inactive

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   Wonderful idea, esmi! Would definitely be a good thing to see SOME kind of a warning for this issue, whatever form it takes.

   (Perhaps a html/javascript on page warning? A javascript pop-up confirmation prompt would be too easy to mindlessly click "OK" through.)

   I have never had the "mismatched site URL" problem myself, but I can DEFINITELY see the havoc it wreaks on the Support Forums.

   +1 for a fix! This should be "in core".

   Posted: 8 years ago #

5. Simon East
   Member

   The fact that you even have to manually define a URL for WordPress is awful and should be ditched. It always makes moving between development, staging and production a PITA.

   But yes, +1 for some confirmation message when changing this option.

   Posted: 5 years ago #

6. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
   Administrator

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   By allowing you to manually define, it allow advanced users to do some pretty nifty things like map domains and have WP run out of other locations :)

   Posted: 5 years ago #

7. tadhail
   Member

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   I quite agree that it's a bit too easy to edit. It's almost as if there should be an 'advanced' section for site-owners who really have no idea what they're doing.

   Posted: 1 year ago #

8. ayeweb
   Inactive

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   I agree up to a point and hope in next WordPress will consider this.

   Posted: 1 year ago #

9. modparlor
   Inactive

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   Hardwired URLs: Worst idea ever. Right up there with other ugly hacks such as postmeta all in one table with double primary keys and a bazillon SQL requests per pagecall and all-out procedural execution.

   The URL problem needs a complete redo along with some professional routing. Perhaps an own routing table with automatic 1:1 relations for pages and overviews and some caching for routes?

   If would be cool if I didn't always need to manually add a page when I need a new route ... but then again, shortcodes and/or non-content templates are a neat way of building managable endpoints. ... Tricky problem and tradeoff.

   But URLs need a redo, seriously. This hardwired URL stuff sucks big time and is one of the most glaring drawbacks of WP IMHO.

   Posted: 1 year ago #

10. drupalth
    Member

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    I voted for this 5 stars point.

    Posted: 1 year ago #

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