Search and replace URLs in comments

  • Resolved billbennett

    (@billbennett)


    7 years, 4 months ago

    Search and Replace does a fine job changing URLs on internal links after I moved to different permalink settings. However, it doesn’t pick up the URLs in comments. Presumably that’s because these are in a different database even though the _comments and _commentsmata tables are in the Select Tables list.

    Is there a way to change URLs in comments? I’d do it manually by I have 4000 to deal with.

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  • Plugin Contributor Frank Bueltge

    (@bueltge)

    You should use the tool s/r for any table, there you select manual in the plugin, not the URL specific search, there is more for a change of the url of the current install.

    Thread Starter billbennett

    (@billbennett)

    Hi Frank

    Yes, I use the normal Search and Replace tab, but I noticed that some of the URLs in comments are not picked up. This could be down to caching, but I’ve tried refreshing the cache and they are still there. I suspect some comments use another table that’s not in the S&R list or are saved elsewhere (maybe offsite).

    Plugin Contributor Frank Bueltge

    (@bueltge)

    Hi Bill.
    Can you try it with the current dev version. We have implement a lot of changes, improvements. It was really helpful in your context that it works.
    THanks for your feedback. In my tests works it fine.

    The download is here: https://github.com/inpsyde/search-and-replace/archive/master.zip
    Please overwrite the current directory, or remove the current directory before copy the download.

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