Right now I'm bulding a wordpress website on my server. Urls are http://domain.com/ftpfolder/page
Problem that I have is that I'm going to have to transfer this website to the client's server and links will be like this http://domain2.com/page
Wordpress Address & Site URL can fix this easily, however, not all links in the website will be changed as some of them are entered manually. I did the test already.
My question is: How do I write all images/pages links in order to be ready for the transfer?
I thought I could name all of them <a href="./page"> but this creates mistakes for some links.
For eg. I have to some images in a page called "expertise": http://domain.com/ftpfolder/expertise
I want each image to link to a specific product (wordpress portfolio), for example: http://domain.com/ftpfolder/portfolio/product1
If I use <a href="./portfolio/products1">, then the link becomes:
http://domain2.com/expertise/portfolio/product1 which doesn't work because /expertise/portfolio doesn't exist as mentioned two lines above (because I'm using wordpress pages and portfolios, so categories are bypassed)
So should I write all my links: http://domain.com/ftpfolder/... and then replace this by http://domain2.com/... in the database? If yes, how do I do it?
Or is there another technique I'm not aware of to simplify my links?
Or should I rethink the way my content is organised, but I'm not sure how.
Hope this makes sense, sorry for my bad English. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Use "Search and Replace Script" as advised by the WordPress Codex.
Use to replace 1 with 2:
domain.com/ftpfolder/page
domain2.com/page
Oh, did I tell you to do a backup first?