Two possible easy ways to replace Old website URL to New Website URL: 1/ Directly replace in SQL file: Export the database and open SQL file. Manually find and replace old website URL with new website URL. Once replace is done, save and import database again. 2/ Use Migrate DB plugin: Use the third-party WordPress … Read more
The GUID should not be used to generate any URLs for the site (caveat below), so it shouldn’t hurt to leave them as they are… unless some badly designed plugin decides that GUIDs are a great shortcut to getting an URL. What the GUID is, is a globally unique identifier– global as in “throughout all … Read more
It should be something like: UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid, ‘oldurl.com’, ‘newurl.com’) WHERE guid LIKE ‘http://oldurl.com/%’; oldurl.com – Previous URL shown in wordpress settings > general options newurl.com – New URL
1) The GUID is exactly that — a GUID. It’s used to uniquely identify the post. If you need to link to a post, then use get_permalink( $post_ID ) ($post_ID is optional) (link: get_permalink). 2) Not without a plugin, no. There’s talk of using an image shortcode for 3.1 though, or maybe 3.2. In the … Read more
“GUID” stands for “Globally Unique Identifier” mainly used by feeds to tell if that specific post was shown on the feed before or not, even if you change domains. When developing on local host and the moving to live (+1 just for that BTW) and no feed reader/burner has read your feeds and only if … Read more