Linking help

  • Resolved michelepinnacle

    (@micheleeyamin)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    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 https://www.test.com and I want to link an image to page https://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

    (@micheleeyamin)

    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

    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

    (@micheleeyamin)

    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!

    for that you can use a plugin named Velvet Blue Update URL’s. 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

    (@micheleeyamin)

    Ah thank you so much!

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