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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.

How To Use Separate Themes On Different Pages In WordPress?

You can assign a separate theme on home, posts, search, archive and other pages of your WordPress site.

In this lesson, you will learn how easily you can get control over the look and feel of your website by assigning different themes to different areas of your website.

Simply navigate to your admin area dashboard to find and install Multiple Themes plugin. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Appearance -> Manage Themes page to assign different themes over different sections of your website.

The plugin will enable you to choose

  1. A Theme for All Posts
  2. A Theme for All Pages
  3. A Theme for Site Home
  4. A Theme for an Individual Post
  5. A Theme for an Individual Page
  6. A Theme for Selective Archive Page
  7. A Theme for Selective Search Pages, Terms, and more

The plugin enables you to choose a different theme for everything and override the active WordPress theme on your website.

Updating WordPress Theme Options

Now the question arises how you would be able to change the theme options for any theme you want? Well that is possible, you will find the complete process in this lesson.

The plugin doesn’t changes the active WordPress theme on your website. Instead, it works by dynamically overriding the settings on the pages and sections selected by you.

How To Start Your Own URL Shortener Service?

Just like Bit.ly and Goo.gl, you can start your own URL shortening service using your own domain name. Sometime back we have discussed about creating short URLs of your website on your own domain. Now today in this tutorial we will show how you can start your own URL shortener service and make it public like Google URL Shortener.

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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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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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How To Create A Unique Private Feed URL For Each Registered User In WordPress ?

Now you can easily create unique feed URLs for each registered user in your WordPress site simply by adding Feed Keys to the end of the existing feed URL. Unique Feed Keys are made by hashing username or email against a randomly generated key. You can choose the key length and algorithm to use to hash the salt and the key together using new WordPress plugin called Private Feed Key. It adds adds a 32bit (or 40bit) key for your website users and creates a unique feed URL.

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Easily Add A Copy URL Button For Quickly Copying Posts & Pages Permalinks In WordPress

You can add a Copy URL link in admin area all posts & pages list and enable quick copying of existing post/page permalinks to your clipboard.

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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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