Title: Moving to https and changing Yoast Database Tables
Last modified: July 23, 2020

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# Moving to https and changing Yoast Database Tables

 *  Resolved [kastali_bleikr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kastali_bleikr/)
 * (@kastali_bleikr)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-to-https-and-changing-yoast-database-tables/)
 * Hi there!
 * We’ve moved the site to https and I have a plugin called Better Search and Replace
   that I generally use to change the database tables to find instances of the old
   http in posts and images.
 * I see that there are yoast tables that I can search and replace the http url 
   with the new https url (the url is the same except the https) and I was wondering
   if it would be ok to change them this way. I wasn’t sure if Yoast had a feature(
   i didn’t see anything that stood out to me) that would be a better alternative
   to this.
 * I don’t believe we have done a lot with Yoast just yet, we used it to mainly 
   fix an issue with pages showing on Facebook. So we haven’t really jumped into
   it, but doing a dry run with Better Search and Replace showed that some of the
   tables had several instances of the old http URL.
 * Also, I know this is involving another plugin, but really I’m asking about the
   best way to change your plugin’s tables to use the https url. I wanted to get
   your opinions before moving forward, and hope you can offer a bit of insight 
   into this.
 * Thank you for your time!

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 *  [Rumejan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onlyincebu/)
 * (@onlyincebu)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-to-https-and-changing-yoast-database-tables/#post-13158419)
 * Hello [@kastali_bleikr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kastali_bleikr/)!
 * That is fine. You can either do a search and replace in the database (using your
   preferred plugin) or install the [Yoast Test Helper](https://wordpress.org/plugins/yoast-test-helper/)
   plugin to help you reset the indexable tables in your database. Once installed
   and activated, go to Tools > Yoast Test and click on “Reset indexables”. Then
   click the “Start processing and speed up your site now” button.
 * For the health and safety of your site, we recommend creating regular backups
   of your site and database. This is especially important before installing, updating,
   removing plugins, or making changes to your database.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by [Rumejan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onlyincebu/).
 *  Thread Starter [kastali_bleikr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kastali_bleikr/)
 * (@kastali_bleikr)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-to-https-and-changing-yoast-database-tables/#post-13166330)
 * Thank you so much for input! I’m working with our IT to make sure we are getting
   the regular backups of the databases. I believe we are, but I will be making 
   sure before proceeding.

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 * Last reply from: [kastali_bleikr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kastali_bleikr/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-to-https-and-changing-yoast-database-tables/#post-13166330)
 * Status: resolved