If you are trying to use Search and replace WordPress plugin to replace the URL’s of old website with new website. Or you have imported a demo content which couldn’t change the URL’s from old to new ones.
Why URL’s didn’t change with Search and Replace?
Some plugins just like Elementor WordPress Plugin changes the input into some compression mode before they save it to database. That compressed information do not provide information which URL’s are present in that compression. So search and plugins while can work with arrays and objects but wouldn’t work with such compressed data. In that case they wouldn’t able to replace old website url to new website URL.
The only way to do this is decompress the data and then find the URL’s in that data.
How to change old url to new url in Elementor WordPress plugin
Fortunately if you are trying to change the old url to new url in Elementor WordPress plugin then things can be very easy! Please follow these steps.
- Go to wp-admin dashboard and click on Elementor in side panel
- Now click on Tools just under Elementor >> tools
- From tools open tab >> Replace URL
- Update Site Address (URL) Enter old website url and new website url
Note: Please make sure if you are using / ending slash on new site’s url make sure you added that on old site’s url as well.
Important: Its always good to backup your database before doing these type of changes into site.
