Title: Linking help
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Linking help

 *  Resolved [michelepinnacle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micheleeyamin/)
 * (@micheleeyamin)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-help/)
 * Hi I am sort of new at this so im sorry if my explanations arent clear. I currently
   have a temporary website where I have to make a bunch of images into links. I
   will eventually be moving this whole site do a different host and using a different
   domain name and I want to avoid a whole relinking process.
 * I found that if my website for example is [http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)
   and I want to link an image to page [http://www.test.com/this/that/first](http://www.test.com/this/that/first)
   if I just put the this/that/first as the link url it automatically puts the test.
   com part in when it redirects. If i do it this way will i avoid problems if my
   new website is for example test2.com .. because it will automatically put in 
   test2.com ? ( so it would re link it to test2.com/this/that/first)
 * I hope this makes sense I just want to basically avoid puting in the full link
   test.com/this/that/2 because I’m assuming when I switch the domain of the site
   that link will not work.
 * Hope this makes sense

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 *  Thread Starter [michelepinnacle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micheleeyamin/)
 * (@micheleeyamin)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-help/#post-6327288)
 * sorry i just found out that what I am referring to is relative urls vs permanent
   urls. I read a bunch of threads about the topic, and most people have said not
   use relative urls. Is there any other option I can do while linking on the temporary
   site? I only found solutions talking about queries and I am not familiar with
   how to do that. I also noticed most of the threads are from a few years ago so
   im hoping there are some new solutions out there for this issue.
 * Thanks and sorry for my lack of knowledge
 *  [Lalit Nagrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laliz/)
 * (@laliz)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-help/#post-6327289)
 * dont worry about images, after you migrate website all image links will be updated
   to new URL (aas you will move all images too to new test2.com), only issue you
   can have is of google indexing your images. for that you can simply use 301 redirect
   in .htacess of old website so that when people try to open test.com/image.png,
   it will be redirected to test2.com/image.png
 *  Thread Starter [michelepinnacle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micheleeyamin/)
 * (@micheleeyamin)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-help/#post-6327294)
 * Thanks for responding! I know that my image urls will all get updated but i mean
   custom links that I assign to those images.
 * thanks!
 *  [Lalit Nagrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laliz/)
 * (@laliz)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-help/#post-6327314)
 * for that you can use a plugin named [Velvet Blue Update URL’s](https://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/).
   it has worked well for me everytime. it can replace all instances of test.com
   to test2.com anywhere it appear in the page or posts.
 *  Thread Starter [michelepinnacle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micheleeyamin/)
 * (@micheleeyamin)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-help/#post-6327321)
 * Ah thank you so much!

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 * Last reply from: [michelepinnacle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micheleeyamin/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-help/#post-6327321)
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