This is my first time using Ghost, and I installed the latest version for the first time yesterday.
I have a site which has links like:
site.com/2010/03/03/post-name
I tried to manually edit the URL when posting them, but it changed it to:
site.com/2010-03-03-post-name
I tried to look around and I found out that you can use /year/month/date on the URL, but that impacts all URLs. Not all of my old URL’s are on that format, but there are some of them which are very important in this case.
So my question is:
Is it possible to change the URL structure of SOME posts with the date, and some with default format?
I am tired of searching, and if I can’t find a way, I am just going to redirect the old URLs to the new ones.
Thank you in advance!
Do those posts need to live on those URLs? You can use custom collections to rewrite some posts depending on the tag they have applied, however I think it would be better if you went down the alternative route and redirecting those URLs to newer and more consistent ones. Ghost has a built in redirects feature which you can read up on here:
https://ghost.org/docs/api/v3/handlebars-themes/routing/redirects/
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I have migrated website to new domain, the problem is css not loading
if I inspect element it gives link to old domain, is there a way to update css links in wordpress?
please help
When moving a WordPress site to a new domain, you need to change the Site URL and Home URL, usually in the database or in wp-config.php, depending on how the site was originally set up. There may be other changes you need to make in the database, or by manually editing posts, like the locations of images in posts.
This page on wordpress.org is a good reference, for all the things you may need to change, and it shows a few different methods to make most of the changes, so you can choose the one you prefer:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
Make sure to keep a backup of the site in case of any mistakes. If you make some changes, and most of the site is working, but a few things aren't, I would recommend making another backup, so you could restore it again without losing much work, if needed.
yes when you are adding links to your site you show use the function site_url().example/my_post in order to construct the links
This may be an obvious question for those of you more advanced in coding than myself...but I created a website in WordPress but their domain is hosted elsewhere. They changed the A name and it now points to the site, but the font awesome icons are now square boxes. How can I fix this? Is there a simple way?
Many thanks for any help/guidance.
Alison
Super late, but hopefully this saves someone a lot of time. After migrating an existing Wordpress site to a new domain, I too encountered icons missing (both on the front-end and the back-end administration). After a long search and applying different methods, I found the database still listed the original/old domain within the "option" table.
Using phpMyAdmin, select the "option" table. Within "option" you will see the "site" and "home" rows. If the value has the old domains, you will need to change it to match the sites URLs (Located on the Administration dashboard under Settings > WordPress Address (URL) & Site Address (URL). To change the value, click Edit > and update the URL.
Fix the problem in less then 2 mins. Simple replacement of /font-awesome/5.13.0/css/fontawesome.min.css with /font-awesome/5.13.0/css/all.min.css and also font-awesome/5.13.0/js/fontawesome.min.js with /font-awesome/5.13.0/js/all.min.js can fix this issue. https://youtu.be/_GV_pEmLCLU
I know this is 2 years old, but I just ran into a similar problem and the answer given by Owais did not feel right to me (getting CSS from another site).
This happened to me for the exact same reason as it did for OP. I migrated my website to another host and another domain-name. After doing that I ran a rename-script for the DB (thousants of hard-coded URLs were replaced).
However, as it turns out, my theme was also using hard-coded URLs in the CSS files and in some JS files, as they were generated (upload/fusion-scripts and upload/fusion-styles). After replacing the hardcoded URLs in these files (I used visual studio, but you can use any bulk-replace tool) everything worked fine again.
Just another idea to throw in here - after transferring the site to the new server, and running this handy script to replace all references of the old url with the new one, I was still having the same issue with font awesome. The solution was to go to Settings / General and set the Endurance Cache to Off (0). Refreshed the site and all was well.
In my case, I had that problem changing the url using the constants WP_HOME WP_SITEURL at wp-config.php
When I changed through the wp-admin using the RELOCATE flag, worked
As you may know, this is the official doc about it
I had this problem so many times but this time I found the full proof solution for this issue:
Open PhpMyAdmin and then click on wp_options table.
In this, you will see a table with a name(according to your theme name) something like "theme_options_css" edit it and change the URL from old to new.
The problem might occur due to Http to Https migration also. So for that also change Http to Https manually in the same table and the problem will be resolved the moment you save your table.
I don't think what I want can be done, but I thought I'd try here .. maybe someone can think outside the square for me...
I have installed wordpress on my domain at /wordpress.
I will eventually move it to / when it is finished and overwrite the existing content.
My problem is that in my posts, I have to reference images directly (i.e. /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/image.png)
My problem is that when I move wordpress to root, all of those images in the posts are going to be rendered invalid.
What I want to do is try and make a request for /wp-content/uploads/image.png find /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/image.png but I can't redirect everything to /wordpress because my existing site will disappear...
I'm thinking I need to install some type of internal media manager because I just can't see how this could work
this might help u
RewriteRule ([^.]+\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png))$ http://www.newurl.com/$1 [R=3-1,L,NC)
u can get image name from old url and pass to new url..
Redirecting is not really a solution here, IMO it just creates additional load, you should do a database wide search and replace of all referenced URLs after you move.
I recommend using searchreplacedb2 - I've been using it for years and it works great for me-
http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
Search yourdomain.com/wordpress
Replace yourdomain.com
I'm using wordpress. I have a post that has a pretty awkward url, like:
http://example.com/dogfood/why-do-dogs-like-bacon-i-will-investigate
I want to change the url to something more succinct, in hopes that it would improve my search results ranking:
http://example.com/dogfood/dogs-and-bacon
But this article is pretty popular now, and many third party sites have links pointing to the original url.
Is the best solution here to:
Duplicate the same post content at the new url.
Leave the old post as-is (the url will remain intact).
Set up a 301 redirect in my .htaccess file from the old url to the new url.
This way links to my old article will still work, but (hopefully) new searches for dog food bacon will start ranking my new url higher? Or can I simply delete the old post after I setup the redirect in my .htaccess file - no need to keep the old url around actually?
Thanks
Here are my thoughts:
Duplicate content is almost always a bad idea.
I think that leaving the old post URL intact is just fine. There's really no reason to change it. If what you want is to generate more traffic, there are other, more "kosher" ways of doing so: get other sites to link to your article or write an update to the article in a new post and add a link to the current article. Besides, I think people are more likely to search for "Why do dogs like bacon?" than "dogs and bacon".
Technically a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file would be the best solution if you insist on changing the URL (which I discourage), but it would be a b*** to maintain for every post you want to redirect. Consider using a plugin that will do this for you, like Redirection.
We are using the NextGen Gallery plugin to generate a slideshow in a Wordpress site. I needed to change the site URL to a a different subdomain, and this seems to have broken the links. The plugin-generated javascript still passes the old URL to swfobject.embedSWF.
Does anyone know how to fix this? I already updated the Wordpress "General Settings" with the new WordPress address and Site address (which are the same), and the plugin does not seem to pick up that change. Thanks!
Found it. It's in the string-encoded ngg_options entry in the wp_options table. The specific field is "irURL".
Why they chose to capture the site URL independently, instead of reading it from the Wordpress site configuration, is beyond me.
Could it be that NextGen has hardcoded those values somewhere in its database tables?
It could be a matter of running a bunch of SQL update queries to replace any instances of http://old.domain for http://new.domain
And now I'll state the obvious, recommending you to backup the full DB before you attempt any of this.
I had the same problem (unchanged absolute CSS/JS files' paths) after domain changing although I changed every single old domain's occurrence in database (even in serialized arrays/objects in options).
I found solution on http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/galleries-opening-lightbox/ - I didn't have time to do an investigation where they store these paths or in which format. :P
For me it is extremely stupid in Wordpress that it stores absolute paths (with one and the same domain) in so many places but that's another matter. :)