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How To Update Old Links After Changing The Domain Name In WordPress?

After changing your domain name, installing SSL, or changing any link on your website, the most important thing you need to do is update the links on your website.

When you move your WordPress Website to a new domain name, the most common issue that you notice is all internal links to pages and references to images are not updated, images don’t show up and internal links don’t work as they point to the old address which you have abandoned. This lesson will guide you two easy processes of updating such URLs on your WordPress site.

How To Update All Your WordPress Site URLs In One Click?

Login to your WordPress site and navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to find and install Update URLs plugin on your website. Upon activation, navigate to Tools -> Update URLs page.

Here you simply need to type the old URL and the new URL address, then use the tick box option to select where you want to update URLs such as on posts, pages, attachments, excerpts or all GUIDs and then click ‘Update URLs Now’ button. That’s it, your URLs would get updated.

How To Auto Update Website URLs After Migrating To A New Domain Name?

There’s another plugin that automatically detects the domain name change and the auto-updates all old links and WordPress tables in the database of your website. It is especially coded for the domain name change and you don’t require to selectively mention the changes.

Navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to find and install Automatic Domain Changer plugin on your WordPress site. After activation, navigate to Tools -> Change Domain and first you may backup and save your website database by clicking ‘Backup Database as SQL’.

Next, type the old domain name and new domain name in the fields and click ‘Change Domain’ button. The plugin lets you update HTTPS and the links with or without the ‘www’ prefix.

Conditionally Redirect Any Link On WordPress

You can decide what links, users, and HTTP codes you want to send on what specific pages and set your own redirection rules on WordPress.

This means you can redirect links by HTTP codes, on the basis of whether the user is logged in or logged out, redirect specific URLs or permalink structure, etc, easily with the help of a plugin.

Although, these redirect implementations can also be done via cPanel using the domain redirect rules or by using the .htaccess file present in the root directory of your website. But to make things easier for newbie users, the Redirect Redirection plugin is programmed with an easy interface to do the same from the admin panel of your website. Its simplified functions are made available to help users that are not familiar with coding and defining redirects via the technical interface of the server.

The main features of the plugin include:

  • Options to redirect any HTTP code that can be 301, 302, 303, 304, 307 and 308
  • Options for defining the inclusion and exclusion rules for the logged in & out users, specific user role, user’s referrer link, user’s agent, user’s cookie, user’s IP, server, and also the language
  • Several options to set redirection rules that include simple as well as advanced RegEx matches. The URLs that contain specific string to new or removed string, URLs that start with something, specific permalink structures, and soon 404s redirects would also be available. Apart from this, the setting redirection rules with several matching conditions is also possible with this plugin
  • Options to manage all redirects comfortably by enabling or disabling links, modifying or deleting the redirects neatly listed on the admin page
  • You can set automatic redirects, change URL, and also import or export redirection lists, these features are under development and would be availble soon to you

How to set it to work on your website?

To start you will need to install-activate the new WordPress plugin called Redirect Redirection. Once activated visit its admin page on your dashboard and select the option to add your own redirect rule.

You will see that there are several options to let you set your own link redirect condition. You can define as many rules you want and also you can keep a backup of that, the plugin offers you the option to import and export the URL redirection rules you have created on your WordPress website.

Create Dynamic Links Gallery With Images In WordPress

New WordPress plugin WP Links Page allows you to easily create dynamic links gallery showing screenshot of each link in your WordPress site. The plugin is programmed to automatically create screenshots of links and save you from the process of hardcoding links and finding right image for each website.  Continue reading Create Dynamic Links Gallery With Images In WordPress

Hide Referer And Anonymize All External Links In WordPress

When yo link to any article on Internet, a notification is send to that website owner in the form of trackback or pingback. Whenever you link to any website, there are various services that can track the liking and send information on how many referrers are sent from your website.

This is ofcouse not problem but sometimes you just don’t want to allow anyone to track you or may be if you don’t want any website owner consider your website or whatsoever may be the reason, there are many free services that allows you to stop referrers on external links on your website.  Continue reading Hide Referer And Anonymize All External Links In WordPress

Restoring Link Title Attribute Field In WordPress 4.2+ Versions

In WordPress 4.2, the link title field from the popup box has been replaced with link text field. Link title attribute text shown when the user hovers over to the link.

But these days when smartphone, tablets and other mobile devices are more active, nobody cares about the link title attribute because it is not seen by most users.

Link title only shows up on desktop and laptops, some people thinks that it is useful for SEO and some only use it for writing a brief text for the link so that their visitors can know where they are going to.  Continue reading Restoring Link Title Attribute Field In WordPress 4.2+ Versions

Process Outgoing Links Differently From Internal Links In WordPress

By default all external and internal links on a WordPress site works the same way. But you might have noticed various websites displaying and processing external links differently from internal links. For instance: Websites based on Mediawiki shows a small icon on external links, some websites open external links on a new window or tab etc etc.

In this lesson you will learn how to process external links i.e. outgoing links differently from the links interconnecting your website pages locally.

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Automatically Update All Internal Links After Changing Any Post URL In WordPress

Whenever you update any post or page link in WordPress, all internal links linking to that specific URL go  dead and start showing error 404. Now no worries, in this article we will show you how you can point internal links from old to new post URL all automatically.  Continue reading Automatically Update All Internal Links After Changing Any Post URL In WordPress

Turn Plain Text URLs To Clickable Links In WordPress

Unlike to social media sites, when a URL is added inside WordPress post content it shows up as plan text and hence even for addresses starting up with www or http, one has to manually add the link tag either from the visual editor or from HTML text editor.  Continue reading Turn Plain Text URLs To Clickable Links In WordPress

How To Use Animated 3D Roll Over Links In WordPress?

3D roll over is a stylish way of adding in-content links (both internal & external) inside your WordPress posts, page and other custom post types. 3D Roll Over Links is the new WordPress plugin that enables you to do this very easily in your website, after activation the plugin automatically starts using the 3D roll animation for each and every link you have added in your website content.

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Get Complete Control Over Follow & Nofollow Links In WordPress

Earlier we have discussed about Automatically No Following All External Links In WordPress. But that’s not useful everytime, specially if you are reviewing or writing tutorials on some good websites and services. In this tutorial we will explain you a very easy procedure of getting control over follow/no-follow link relationships.

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How To Enable Live Preview For Links In WordPress?

Just like Facebook and Google+, you can enable live preview feature for links in WordPress. WP Live Preview Links is the new WordPress plugin that enables a live scaled preview of website you are linking to prior to clicking on it. The preview goes of as soon the user stop hovering the link. See it live working here.

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How To Use Unique Custom Mouse Pointers In WordPress ?

You can easily activate a custom mouse pointer for the visitors who access your website in the frontend. Unique Cursor is the new WordPress plugin that allows you to select a custom mouse pointer.

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Advanced Drag & Drop HTML Visual Editor WordPress Plugin

WYSIWYG Visual HTML Editor & Drag And Drop Web Page Editor With CKEditor, Desktop Publisher For WordPress is a powerful WordPress Plug & Edit HTML Editor based on 3D page building design with height, width and depth.

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How To List All Incoming Search Terms In WordPress ?

SEO SearchTerms Admin is simple WordPress plugin that lists all incoming search terms generated by SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2. To use this plugin you will need to have SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 installed and activted in your WordPress site, this plugin allows you to multiply your blog traffic by strengthening on page SEO, increasing the number of indexed pages, auto convert search terms into post tags etc.

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Minimally Invasive Advertising On Top Corners Of Your WordPress Site

Corner Ad is a WordPress plugin for minimally invasive advertising that gets displayed on top corners  of your webpages. The position is typically under-utilized by developers and attracts your visitors using a cool visual effect and imitating a page flip.

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Floating Frame Displaying Social & Custom Buttons In WordPress

Floating Social Media Links is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to display a beautiful floating frame of buttons (linked icons of social media and other custom links) in WordPress. The plugin provides you a clean sticky look.

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