I handled a migration from wp.com that ended up pulling in only some of the images. The Media Library was missing most of what should have been there. The images in the posts remained on the old server. They were loading, so without digging, nobody would notices those images were being remotely served until the old site was shut down. I had the uploads files themselves, but now I had to at least link to those on the new server. I disabled extra image processing (SmushIt) and worked the problem with plugins. I tried Auto Upload Images plugin, and it worked somewhat. It captured some of those remote images and pulled them in. Helpful, but incomplete. Those it captured did end up in the Media Library, so yay for that. Without a log, though, I don't know what worked and what didn't. For the rest, I figured I had to just change the URLs in the post content. I used Better Search Replace, and it caught a lot more references, but again missed many. I could not detect a pattern though. It was not timing out. It was just missing references in the Posts table. And it was finding references in other tables, including the options table. I went directly into the SQL table to investigate, but couldn't find what it was seeing. I was using the free version of Better Search Replace, so I didn't have any logs to refer to. Because this is such a common problem in migrations using Export/Import, I kept looking for a plugin, and that's when I saw Go Live Update URLs. I thought what the heck. And this plugin found what was not found by these other plugins. All of my img links to the old server are now pointing to the new site. Many images still exist only in the filesystem, not in the Media Library. But I can live with that. This plugin is now my first go-to next time I encounter this. As to why the other plugins and even direct queries to the database missed what this plugin found, I figure I must have done something wrong. Not escaping characters or something.

the best plugin !

Found out after using the plug in that my development website (wp.domain.com) with cloud installation of WordPress at host provider was on a different server than my placeholder production website (domain.com) built with a cloud installation of a different tool at the host provider. The production website on the other server was thus not going to move itself out of the way to let the plug in do everything the end customer might wish for. The host provider has since put changes into motion and from first glances at the wp.domain.com content seems pretty sure that the plug in got the urls ready, and when the server adjustment are replicated with the worldwide servers, the WordPress material will in fact be usable at domain.com, and I will be finally be able to get back into the WP admin via domain.com/wp-admin and close any small gaps. I will edit the review with the final conclusion. Hoping for a perfect result. IT savvy but relatively speaking. Laypeople suffer from IT lingo/detail overload, which is why we buy plug-ins!

worked out for me the last times on simple WP sites. But facing sites with lot of plugins i would need the pro version to update custom DB tables. But i won't afford to buy when there is a better search and replace plugin out there which offers these features right away.

I tried this plugin because I like the authors other plugins and it works just as great. switch my site to SSL in under 30 seconds!

That's a great plugin and it works like a charm. Only missing features are: an override function to rename GUID (I do it for websites that are still not online). I would prefer to have a single Pro plugin instead of installing 2 a table list to be sure it's gonna update all the tables in the database (with my_prefix_), rather than hoping it will magically works. With it still does.