Wordpress uploads folder issues
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Hi, i have recently moved my wordpress blog to a new server..
Previously I had a url as website.com/blog
My blog site is now running on the domain website.com
Now most of my images are in the correct folder path wp-content/uploads
Howerver, some of my images are pointing to a folder /blog/wp-content/uploads and so I am getting many missing image on the front end.
How do i get the /blog/wp-content/uploads point to the new url wp-content/uploads
Thanks guys..
Taiger
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Hi Tai,
Glad to hear that this is all sorted out.
All the best,
Tom
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Yes thanks all sorted.
Tai
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Hey Taiger! Get this worked out?
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If you are uncomfortable changing the settings my suggestion companies like Pagely.com $64 3 sites wpengine.com $29 a site and getflywheel.com $15 a site.
They will migrate your website for free they will also support any of these issues you may want to look into them. You can also save money by going to Moz.com/Perks on Pagely & WP engine
#1) Please backup the entire site
**using something like ValtPress.com (easy setup http://help.vaultpress.com/install-vaultpress/ ) , sucuri.net/website-backups or codeguard.com (it's a lifesaver and everyone should use off-site backups) **
#2) If you still have your old WP install backed up I would make it your live again and export the images then reimport them usining WordPress import & export
This tool is amazing if you want to bring over the content from a site that you can still access
https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-site-importer/
**#3) **wp-config
This might simplify it bit-this is what you're looking for as a tool that really makes it easy to change the WP config file
https://generatewp.com/wp-config/
Then go to "address" you can see underlined in this photograph is larger image
http://i.imgur.com/WagtM8N.png
Compare your WP config file to in the generated config file if the only discrepancy is /blog configure it to your set up.
If you need more you must migrate.
See https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/migrate
http://www.wpallimport.com can inmport everything
using a tool like this will allow you to keep off-site backups on AWS S3 a fast and secure place to store files.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/database-backup-amazon-s3/installation/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/site-import/
I hope this helps,
Tom
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Hi
I would be happy to help do you have the ability to post a screenshot of your WP config file?
Here is a redirect that may make a difference.
Add the following redirect to the the top of your .htaccess file:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/http://domain.com/blog/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ http://domain.com/http://domain.com/blog/$4
It sounds like you have it set up correctly and not have all the photos uploaded to the new folder. If that is the issue and you have a backup of the site could simply upload from your image folder if that that possible?
If you it done for you I recommend authoritydev.com & gregreindel.com
Is one of the best WordPress developers I know.
Feel free to contact me as well contact@blueprintmarketing.com
sincerely,
Thomas
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Hi Tom, Thank you so much for your help. Just need to be clear on one thing.. Most of the images are pointing to the correct uploads folder.
And some are pointing to /blog/wp-content/uploads folder.
ps. the permalinks settings have been set up.
pps. Your suggestions do look a bit complicated.. (i may need to get some to look at implementing it)
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Go to permlinks first and see if reseting your permana links by simply selecting new URL structure and hitting the save button works. if not
Change Default Media Folder
Open your wp-config.php file, locoed at the root of your WordPress installation, and add the following snippet:
| ```
1|
define('UPLOADS', 'wp-content/myimages');Make sure you add this code before the line: | ``` 1 ``` | ``` require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’); ``` | This Yoast article is very Helpful along with the tool below https://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/ https://yoast.com/wp-content/permalink-helper.php OR Then he default uploads folder needs to be changed to a different location, then any media URLs will need to be changed in the**post_content** column of the posts table. For example, if the default uploads folder is changing from **wp-content/uploads** to **images**:
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content,'www.domain.com/wp-content/uploads','www.domain.com/images');
Aso see http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-change-the-default-media-upload-location-in-wordpress-3-5/ ``` http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/change-default-wordpress-uploads-folder/ ### wp-cli [wp-cli](http://wp-cli.org/) is a super useful shell tool. ``` wp search-replace '[http://example.dev'](http://example.dev%27/) '[http://example.com'](http://example.com%27/) --skip-columns=guid ``` Hope that helps, Tom [KbfucDJ.png](http://i.imgur.com/KbfucDJ.png)
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