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Requested: 7 months and 2 weeks ago

I bought the Pro version and it hasn’t worked. I checked the databases and used the plugins “string locator” and all the URL that i wanted changed it still there.

  1. Hi Lorna,

    Looking at your site it appears all of the URLs may have been changed. I was unable to locate any instances of the old URL anywhere on your site.

    I see you ran the plugin with the scheme on both the old and new URL. If you have any remaining URLs, please run the plugin without any scheme (settings in private information).

    Otherwise, if you have an example of a remaining URL that you can point me to, I’ll walk you through replacing it.

    Have a great night!

  2. thanks for your quick response.

    1. Not sure what you mean by scheme? How do I, do this?
    2. Just to give a bit of background, i change my URL from Victoriawindsor.store to bondibody.life and didn’t migrate the site to a new WordPress location. The bondibody is brand new business and all i am going to do is change the images and content of the victoria windsor site, so I have the same web template. On my old victoria winsdor site i had a lot of developers do work for me in the backend of the website for fast page loads and many other things, so there is a lot of referencing to the old domain. Will all the work they have done in the backend be changed over to bondi body?

    thank lorna

  3. Hi Lorna,

    1. The scheme is the https:// before the domain. Running this plugin without the https:// will cover more use cases although it is often not necessary.
    2. Yes. This plugin only changes the database and does not make any adjustments to the code. Any work that was done using the previous domain will remain intact with the new domain. The only consideration is if any code in the site has the old domain hard coded in the files (uncommon), it will need to be changed in the files.

    Have a great night!

  4. Hi, Thanks for your response.  So i have run a search without the  https:// and just put –

    old domain: victoriawindsor.store

    new domain: bondibody.life

    When i check everything in a plugin called “string locator” it still shows their is the old domain name in a lot of the files. These files are not uncommon files.

    Can you help, as it is still not working?

  5. Hi Lorna,

    This plugin will only update the database and not any files.

    I’m not familiar with the String Locator plugin, but if you provide some examples of what this plugin is telling you, I can likely point you in the right direction.

    Have a great weekend!

  6. Hi,

    Sorry for the late reply. I need to send you some screenshots, but i can attach them in here. Can i have an email address to send them to please?

  7. Hi Lorna,

    You may send your screenshots to the support email.

    To make it easier for our team to reference, please include Ticket #8504 in the subject line.

    Have a great day!

  9. Hope you are well. Just to re-cap my old web address domain hasn’t been changed to the new one. I double-checked in a plugin called String Locator and my old web address is still displaying in the backend. My website is also very slow to load.  In the String Locator plugin,  there is a long screen to scroll down of all the places where the old domain is. I have attached only a few screenshots as an example.

    Many thanks for your help in advance.

    Lorna

  10. Hi Lorna,

    Based on the screenshots I can see the unchanged URL exists in various files and not in the database. This plugin will only change the database, which appears to have worked successfully. That being said, I’ll try to offer some guidance for finding/changing the various files:

    robots.txt

    The robots.txt that your site is actually using is correct and using using the new URL. It looks like there is a dangling robots.txt file in the root of your site which is not being used. This file may be deleted.

    wflogs

    There are a bunch of configuration files created by Wordfence which contain the old URL. I couldn’t find any direct information on where these configuration are generated, but I good place to check is the Wordfence settings to update these URLs.

    style.css

    The theme file royal-child/style.css has 2 references to the old URL within an url() call. Line 26 and line 90. The URL in this file must be updated manually to point to the new URL.

    minit

    Minit is generating a bunch of CSS files in the uploads directory as a form of minimized file cache. According to their blog, you may clear and regenerate these files by clicking the “Purge Minit Cache” on the Plugins screen. Note: You must update the style.css file before doing this or the newly generated files will still contain the old URL.

    updraft

    Many log files are stored in the wp-content/updraft directory. These files are harmless and may be kept as is. They may also be deleted to clear up the string locator report. Any file in this directory which starts with “log.” may be deleted.

  11. Much appreciated for your detailed response. thanks so much.

    Necessary changes are-

    1. Delete the robot.txt file that is not being used.
    2. update the royal child style sheet

    Would deleting Minit, wflogs, updraft plugins and then reinstalling them be the quickest way?

    Kind Regards

    Lorna

     

  12. Hi Lorna,

    As far as I know, both the robots.txt and royal child stylesheets are static files so they would have to be deleted/updated manually.

    Have a great day!

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