You’ll need to go in and change each one … Publications are handled the same as any other attachment in WordPress (i.e. Images), the URL is hard-coded into the database and needs to be changed if you want to migrate the site from one domain to another.
Ok so how are they set in the DB? What table? i would assume that i could just go in and run a sql update statement to change those links, correct? Thanks
All attachments are stored in the wp_posts table with post_type set to “attachment.” The GUID for each attachment is set to the original URL when it was inserted – don’t change this! GUIDs are meant to be used for identification and shouldn’t be changed, they aren’t used for permalinks.
The URLs you want to change are actually in the wp_post_meta table. Whenever you create a new publication in WordPress, you add an absolute URI reference to a custom post type. This reference is stored in a custom meta field for that post – the field is called wpa_upload_doc.
So just look in your wp_post_meta table for any entry with a key of wpa_upload_doc and change the value to match the new URL.
Eric,
After making those changes it seems that when a user uploads a pdf and then makes link to it in a post the link doesn’t work but old pdf’s do. What could be the issue here? Thanks.
What exact changes did you make? Walk me through what you did – step by step, what you expected to happen, and what you’re currently seeing.
