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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.

Make Things Easy For Your Website Users By Providing Them Easy Documentation Through WordPress Dashboard

Simple Documentation, a free WordPress plugin makes things really easy for your website users by allowing to display a list of reference material to access in admin area. In simple words, this plugin helps webmasters/developers to provide documentation through the WordPress dashboard because you are on a stage where dashboard widgets are nothing and you don’t even look at them but there are many other users, specially the beginners, dashboard widgets are the first thing where they start looking up for the solutions or you can say answers.

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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 Insert NoFollow Link Relation Via Shortcode In WordPress ?

Inserting `rel=nofollow` links inside your posts or pages via shortcode is an easy and much better method of inserting no follow attribute because here you can decide what links you want to prevent from search engine crawl.

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How To Add A MailTo Icon & Spambot Protection To Email Address Links In WordPress ?

With WP Mailto Links plugin you can easily protect all email addresses and mailto links from spambots and being used for spamming. The plugin is easy to use and configure.

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How To Display A Custom Message With Advertisement & Social Links Before Directing Visitor To Some External Link In WordPress ?

By default when someone clicks any external link on your website he gets redirected to that particular site. This article explains you how you can easily display a custom message with social links or advertisements for few seconds after your visitors click any external link and gets directed to a new web address.

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Easily Add Beautiful Link Icons On The Basis Of Different Link Types In Your WordPress Site

You can  show a different type of link icons with each link present in your WordPress blog posts, pages and other content types using the new WordPress plugin Link Icons. It displays icon on the basis of the link you give inside content you are posting. For example: a video link will show up a video icon and a text link will shows up a text icon.

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Display Images Or Image Based Advertisements Using Powerful Customization Features In WordPress

Linkimage is a brand new WordPress plugin which allows you to display images by using same old media uploader or simply grab them from WordPress media library and display them on sidebar widget with custom links using various customization options. The plugin also provides you a premium version upgrade which offers shortcode and a few more useful features.

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How To Unlink Post Images Without Using Any Plugin In Your WordPress Site ?

Whenever you insert any image in your WordPress blog post it get automatically linked to its media file which when clicked directs your visitor to a page showing that particular image in its real size. Earlier we discussed about a plugin that allows you to remove image link from attached images inside your blog posts, pages and other content types. Now this tutorial lets you do the same thing but without using any such type of plugin.

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Auto Convert Given Keywords To Search Engine Friendly Affiliate Links

AffiLinker Affiliate is a free WordPress plugin (also offers a premium version), it helps you to monetize your website by converting your keywords to Search Engine Friendly Affiliate Links automatically. It saves your time and leaves no traces of affiliate links in your source code.

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Internal Link Manager: Automatically Add Internal Links Across Your WordPress Site

New WordPress Plugin by Kevin Leary automatically adds link keywords and phrases to your site posts and pages. For example, you can very easily make the phase “Linux” get automatically linked to page yoursite.com/linux/. This is both good for SEO, and for reducing bounce rate.

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Easily Show A Customizable Ribbon, Banner Or Badge On Your WordPress Site

Jeff Starr‘s WordPress plugin Show Support Ribbon allows you to display a customizable “support” ribbon, banner, or badge on your website.

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How To Follow And NoFollow Selected Domains In WordPress ?

There are plugins for adding NoFollow and DoFollow attribute to all external links in your WordPress site but this is what creates problem when you want to make certain link DoFollow or NoFollow  and you get messed up because of some plugin activated in your site.

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How To To Attach A Read More Link To Copied Content In WordPress ?

Automatically attach a read more link to copied content of your WordPress site so that whenever someone copy and paste content from your site will get an attached Read More URL Link pointing towards your post.

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How To Make External Links Automatically Open In New Tab In WordPress?

Twitter, Google, Blogger, Youtube, Facebook most of the famous networks excluding Hacker News make external links to open with a blank target. Opening links with target blank means the link opens on a new tab of your browser.

This leaves your page open and increases time on site so if you are tired of checking the box of ‘open link in new tab‘ or setting up target blank for each and every external link you add on your WordPress site then here is a quick solution for you.

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How To Stop Spam Robot Registration On Your WordPress Site ?

You might have spend a lot time chasing spammers and deleting automated posts posted automated software. Now you can stop spam bots registering on your WordPress site, here is an easy and powerful plugin that lets you modify registration link of your WordPress site which stops WP spam bot registrations. Of course this plugin is not the ultimate spam-bot protection but it is a great additional protection against them.

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