So ...
As you have seen, all you have to do, is to specify the old and new URLs of your Wordpress website.
Then, you can can define the targeted locations:
- URLs in page content ( posts, pages, custom post types, revisions )
- URLs in excerpts
- URLs in links
- URLs for attachments ( images, documents, general media )
- URLs in custom fields and meta boxes
Just make your selections, and click the "Update URLs NOW" button to validate your choices.
The plugin will find & replace all instances of old URL with your newly defined URL.
And that's it! Congrats! With only a few clicks you've updated ALL your URLs ...
Simple and useful isn't it?
And that's it my friends!
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Thanks for your time!
This training comes at the right time. I was thinking is this will work in my situation.
I have two sites (say A and B) almost in the same niche and I thought of moving some of the articles from A site to B site as I think the posts are more relevant to the second site.
My questions:
1) Would the above works using the plugin?
2) Since the article has been indexed on the first site, when I move it to the second site, would it effect the indexed status?
3) If someone clicks on the old url of the article somewhere on the internet (Google search, social media sharing etc), would the plugin redirect the person to the new url.
Thanks for the great tutorial and thank you in advance for the answers.
Joe:)
Reply
So ...
1. The plugin doesn't have a "selective" targeting option that will allow you to target specific posts (those moved). But I assume that it should work in a similar manner ... If the URLs are correct (the old posts on site B) they won't be affected, and the "incorrect" URLs (those moved from site A) will be adjusted ... However you should make a full backup on both sites :)
2. Yes. A different domain name is a different entity and that means different rankings. The "new" posts on site B needs to indexed again ...
3. No. The plugin will update your links site-wide on site B, but your already shared URLs (that are connected to site A) that are stored on external third-party servers (social platforms, etc) won't (can't) be affected ...
