Do you want to update URLs after moving your WordPress site? It can be very annoying having to manually edit all the URLs that are in your contents. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to easily update URLs while moving your WordPress site.

How to update urls on wordpress

When and why do you need to update URLs?

Suppose you have moved a WordPress site to a new domain. You can then simply change the WordPress address and site URL by going to the WordPress settings page.

Update wordpress urls

However, this does not change the URLs you previously added to your articles and pages. And that does not change the URLs of the images you have added to your WordPress site.

Changing these URLs manually you lose time, and it will be likely that you forget certain URLs in the process.

We offer a solution with tutorial. We will show you how to quickly update WordPress URLs.

How to update URLs after a migration

First, make sure you have a full backup of your WordPress site. This will make it easy to go back in case of problems during the update process.

Then you have to install and activate the plugin « Velvet Blues Update URLs ". For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress Plugin.

After activating the plugin, you must visit " Tools> Update URL To configure the plugin settings.

Plugin settings

Here you need to provide the old and new URLs of your Website. After that you have to choose where you want the URLs to be updated.

You can update urls in posts and pages, snippets, image attachments, custom fields, etc.

Go ahead and select each item that you want to update, then click on the "Update URLs Now" button.

The plugin will find and replace all instances of the old URL with your new URL.

You can now visit your site to see that all URLs are updated.

It's that simple. I hope this tutorial will be useful for replacing URLs on WordPress.