Moved from root to subfolder. Links in entries are broken
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Hi, everybody,
I moved my WordPress blog from root to a subfolder.
All blog’s links are working, but the ones in the entries. In the entries, all the URLs (href for anchors and src for images) are written as relative paths.
For example, this page:
https://trivinosanchez.com/proyectos/esquince/?p=504
It has the following code:
<p class=”cabecera”>
</p>
<h4 class=”cabecera”>15/02/2012</h4>Although I updated in Settings the WordPress URL and the site URL to ‘https://trivinosanchez.com/proyectos/esquince/’, when WordPress generates the absolute path for the links and images in the entry, it uses just the domain (‘https://trivinosanchez.com’), ignoring folders (‘/proyectos/esquince/’).
Therefore, generates broken links as:
https://trivinosanchez.com/?cat=25
https://trivinosanchez.com/wp-content/uploads/cabeceras/cab_20120215_final.jpgHow could I solve this issue? Is there any way to fix it without editing all the links? I did some search, but I didn’t find anything. I found some answers, but they didn’t work for me (or maybe I didn’t do it right).
Thanks in advance for the help
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Hi, Hope you’re having a good day…
Firstly, have you still got access to the wp-login and admin dashboard pages?
There’s a page on the WP Codex here with instructions, which mentions this plugin, which will go through and update all your links.
This will only work if you have access to the WP Admin Dashboard, and can install plugins.
Let me know if this helps,
TomGood morning, Thomas,
Yes, I have access to admin panel, and I also found that solution. But I don’t think it will work in my case because of the relative paths.
By the way, I see now that the code of the page from my first post has been processed, and the full code is not displayed. What I wanted to show is the links:
-href link is “/?cat=25”
-img src link is “/wp-content/uploads/cabeceras/cab_20120215_final.jpg”When WordPress processes them, it creates URLs without the subdirectories:
“https://trivinosanchez.com/?cat=25”
“https://trivinosanchez.com/wp-content/uploads/cabeceras/cab_20120215_final.jpg”When I would want that the result was:
“https://trivinosanchez.com/proyectos/esquince/?cat=25”
“https://trivinosanchez.com/proyectos/esquince/wp-content/uploads/cabeceras/cab_20120215_final.jpg”When I created the blog, I thought the best way to migrate in the future was to use relative paths, but now I see it’s more problematic than absolute URLs, where I could use the Velvet Blues plugin.
Finally, I am just changing all the URLs to absolute URLs by SQL from phpMyAdmin using REPLACE command. Previously, I imported a backup from the Database. Then, just run a command like:
UPDATE
wp_posts
SET
post_content = REPLACE(post_content,
‘href=”/?’,
‘href=”https://trivinosanchez.com/proyectos/esquince/?’);Thanks for the help!
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