Description
Goes through entire site and replaces all instances of an old url with a new one. Used to change the domain of a site. Works on both multi-site and single site installs.
Check out Go Live Update Urls Pro for more features including priority support, the ability to test a URL before running, updating of tables created by plugins, and so much more!
Pro version 2.3.0 just dropped with lots of great new stuff!
Features
- Database table by table selection.
- Updates serialized data in core tables.
- Very easy to use admin page – which may be found under Tools.
Updates Entire Site including
- Posts
- Pages
- Image urls
- Excerpts
- Post Meta data
- Custom Post Types
- Widgets and widget data
- Options and settings
- And much more
Pro Features
- Priority support.
- Updates database tables created by plugins without fear of issues.
- Database tables are organized into understandable sections.
- Updates serialized data across any table.
- Improved admin page.
- Ability to test URL changes before running them.
- URL testing report is provided for peace of mind.
- Optionally fix common mistakes when entering a URL automatically.
- View and use history of your Site Address (URL).
- Predictive URLs automatically fill in the OLD URL and NEW URL.
- Access to members only support area.
Currently ships with the following languages
- English (US)
- French (fr_FR)
- German (de_DE)
- Spanish (es_ES)
Contribute
Send pull requests via the Github Repo
Screenshots
Typical settings page. The verbiage will change slightly depending on your database structure
Installation
Use the standard WordPress plugins search and installer.
Activate the plugin.
Use the plugin under the Tools menu in the WordPress admin
Manual Installation
- Upload the
go-live-upload-urlsfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
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Use the standard WordPress plugins search and installer.
Activate the plugin.
Use the plugin under the Tools menu in the WordPress adminManual Installation
- Upload the
go-live-upload-urlsfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Upload the
- Where do you use this plugin?
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Under the Tools menu in the dashboard there will be a “Go Live” link.
- Why does updating the domain break some plugins?
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Some plugins will store the data in the database serialized which does not allow for easy updating of the data. You may un-check tables used by such plugins to avoid breakage and then update the urls manually for those plugins. Currently the options, postmeta, usermeta, commentmeta, and sitemeta tables are serialization safe. The Pro Version supports updating these tables created by plugins.
- How do I know which tables I should not update?
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Most tables will be just fine to update. This plugin will tell you which ones not to update.
If you wish to try to update tables mentioned as not safe anyway, you may make a backup of your database, run this on all tables and if you run into trouble, restore your database, un-check tables in sections, and rerun this until you find the culprit. If you find you are running into issues often with custom table you may want to check out the Pro Version of this plugin which works with any table.
Reviews
target destination config at host provider blockage
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!
nice so far
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.
Another slam dunk
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!
Works perfectly, we buyed Pro version
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.
Worked Perfectly
I was a bit nervous after reading some of the comments but even with a plugin heavy site this worked like a charm. I did go with the PRO version to get the support for plugins. Highly recommend!
Great Plugin! Been Using 2 Years
Thanks you for bringing this to the community. Lovely plugin. I like how it’s not on the main navigation and under Tools instead. It only has one purpose, to update URLs and not a bunch of useless mumbo jumbo to go with it. LOVE it.
Contributors & Developers
“Go Live Update URLS” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
5.2.0
- Support URL Encoded URLS within serialized data
- Support JSON Encoded URLS within serialized data
5.1.0
- Added new languages including French, German, and Spanish
- Support upcoming blogmeta table in WP 5.0.0+
- Support updating urlencdode urls
- Improved support for Visual Composer
- Add PHP composer support
5.0.0
- Bring back PHP 5.2 support
- Restructure entire codebase
- Greatly improve security
- Improve performance
- UI improvements
- Use strict WP coding standards
4.1.0
- Drop PHP 5.2 support in favor of PHP 5.3
- Support updating JSON urls
- Support Revolution Sliders
- Add custom updaters support
4.0.0
- Restructure admin page to separate WP Core from custom tables
- Remove custom styles in admin
- Improved js structure
- Improved actions and filters
- Improved verbiage with admin
3.1
- Add support for serialized term meta
3.0
- Greatly improve security
- Improve code organization
- Remove misleading UI messages
- Clears cache when finished
