Moving to the new domain and KGVID

  • Resolved pervect

    (@pervect)


    6 years, 8 months ago

    The videos are embedded with the following shortcode:
    [KGVID]http://yoursite.com/awesomevid.avi[/KGVID]
    Is the any action needed if I move the site to the new domain name from e.g. yoursite.com to yomomma.com for the video URL to be fixed?
    (Guess that the common WP issues are solved)
    Or I’ll have to repost all the videos manually?

    IN BRIEF: how should I change the URLs in the multiple posts with the multiple embeddings?

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  • Thread Starter pervect

    (@pervect)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    UPDATE: WordPress Will Require Users to Have HTTPS This Year. This means that at least one letter in the KGVID shortcode should be added: https://yoursite.com/ instead of http://yoursite.com/. So, there will be another good reason to check out this issue.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    6 years, 8 months ago

    WordPress Will Require Users to Have HTTPS This Year.

    Hauh? WordPress will not require that. It may be recommended though as HTTPS is pretty easy to setup with Let’s Encrypt.

    Why do you say it’s a requirement?

    Thread Starter pervect

    (@pervect)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    I read it here: https://semperplugins.com/wordpress-requires-sites-to-use-https. Also, now it is obvious that https is a very important SEO plus in terms of Google.

    Anyway, my question is not about the site transfer to https, nor about the domain name change in the WordPress as it is meaning. I see no problem in that action.

    I try to understand should I have to fix 1500 plus posts manually or that can be done in a more easy manner.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    6 years, 8 months ago

    I read it here: https://semperplugins.com/wordpress-requires-sites-to-use-https.

    That article is referencing a declaration Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of WordPress) made in December of 2016: https://wordpress.org/news/2016/12/moving-toward-ssl/

    It is planned that certain features may be introduced to WordPress which require HTTPS. No movement has been made towards such things as of today (August 13, 2017), though the REST API will likely be the first to require HTTPS.

    The only move made so far is that hosting providers recommended at https://wordpress.org/hosting/ must provide an SSL certificate and enable HTTPS by default for new accounts (which they do now).

    Overall, WordPress will never force you to switch to HTTPS, but you may find that you won’t be able to use some features in the future.

    With all of that said, switching to HTTPS is a very good idea. As of Firefox 51 https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/01/24/gets-better-video-gaming-non-secure-web-warning/ and Chrome 56 https://security.googleblog.com/2016/09/moving-towards-more-secure-web.html the two most popular web browsers have switching from highlighting HTTPS sites as “Secure” to highlighting HTTP sites as “Not Secure.”

    In other words, the internet is moving forward to making HTTPS the dominant protocol, and I recommend joining the party. So far, more than half of known sites now run on HTTPS: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssl-pulse/

    To switch your WordPress site to HTTPS, you’ll need to first acquire a valid SSL certificate from your hosting provider or a certificate authority. Most hosting providers offer these for free or very low cost, and if yours doesn’t, it might be time to move to one that offers SSL certificates for free: https://wordpress.org/hosting/

    Next, just follow this guide: https://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/web-publishing/https-for-wordpress/

    I try to understand should I have to fix 1500 plus posts manually or that can be done in a more easy manner.

    That can be done very easily with a plugin like https://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/

    Plugin Author Kyle Gilman

    (@kylegilman)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    @macmanx thanks so much for providing all that info.

    @pervect the video URL in the shortcode is just a human-readable starting point for my plugin. If the video is an attachment in your database my plugin should still find the video even if you don’t update your URLs using the Velvet Blues plugin. I recommend you use that plugin to update the URLs anyway since there are probably a lot of other URLs (images, etc) in your database that won’t automatically update. And if you switch your site to https the plugin should automatically switch without any additional work on your part.

    Thread Starter pervect

    (@pervect)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you @kylegilman for the fast reply. OK, now the point is clear! Please keep up the great work! Your plugin is a Must Have tool for any video related WP based site!

    Thread Starter pervect

    (@pervect)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you @macmanx for the great Rumor control!
    It’s worth to be placed as a separate post as the HTTPS issues become more and more popular! Your explanations make it clear to me what and how to do now and I’ve found plenty of the useful and important info.

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