I have updated the URLs stored in the database when the domain has changed. Here are the things to watch for: In the posts table, the post_content will have any embedded links. These you can change without issue. Again in the posts table, the gid would change if you do a global search and replace. … Read more
You need to 301 redirect the old URLs. This can be done by using Custom Permalinks plugin which automatically updates the 301 version of the URL and thus helping the Facebook plugin to recognise and restore the likes and comments.
Never use GUIDs in WordPress, you definitely got that right. However nothing prevents you use concept of unique identifiers. You already have values for them, just ignore native column and store them in post meta as arbitrary data. On import you can check for that. For crazy volume it might require some performance tweaking but … Read more
Migrating content from Drupal to WordPress is bit tricky task and requires expertise. If you are familiar with WordPress development, try to find some solution around “save_posts” hook which will get triggered whenever new post/page gets saved into database. Before you jump into actual coding, I suggest you to take a look at these articles, … Read more
guid doesn’t affect the image URL, it is just used as a unique identifier. It could be random gobbledygook and as long as it is unique it wouldn’t make a difference. It should be safe to use postmeta as long as you aren’t using any plugins that would potentially completely overwrite all postmeta associated with … Read more
If you want to offer an ATOM feed for your attachments you should pass a GUID to wp_insert_attachment() or add a filter for ‘get_the_guid’ that handles empty values. In most (all?) other cases I wouldn’t care about it.
The feed template files call the_guid(), which calls get_the_guid(), which has a filter named (surprisingly) get_the_guid. You can hook into this filter to change the output. The filter only gets the current GUID, not the post ID, so look this up in the global variable if you need it. add_filter( ‘get_the_guid’, ‘wpse17463_get_the_guid’ ); function wpse17463_get_the_guid( … Read more
GUIDs are not URLs, they are unique identifiers that happen to look like URLs. It was, in my opinion, a poor design choice to make them URLs, because it causes a lot of confusion. They are essentially a way to establish the “global uniqueness” of a post, and you should not change these for content … Read more
Short answer: yes The GUID field is meant to represent a globally unique identifier for the post. In WordPress we just happen to use the URL. The GUID field should never be thought of as an actual URL, though … just an identifier for the post. In reality, the GUID field could contain anything that’s … Read more
After changing siteurl, Go to admin panel and update permalink structure once and check.It will start working with new folder name. Hope it helps