How do I ‘rebuild’ the WordPress Media library after transfer to new host?

There’s a few plugins to fix this, but basically it your database still references the images to be “oldsite.com/wp-content/uploads/” and you need it to be “newsite.com/wp-content/uploads”

So you have to change all old references. You could use SQL:

    UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://www.oldsite.com’, ‘http://www.newsite.com’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ‘siteurl';
    UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, ‘http://www.oldsite.com’,’http://www.newsite.com’);
    UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, ‘http://www.oldsite.com’, ‘http://www.newsite.com’);
    UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value, ‘http://www.oldsite.com’, ‘http://www.newsite.com’);

I used to use this plugin which worked great for transferring sites.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/

And this plugin is specifically for letting you sync local and remote changes that have been made throuh ftp:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ftp-sync/

Or here’s a few other popular ones, they pretty much do the same thing:

MPress Fix URL References
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mpress-fix-url-references/

Go Live Update URLS
https://wordpress.org/plugins/go-live-update-urls/screenshots/

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