After moving a website, the old domain is still stored in thousands of places in the database. Ethereal Link Replacer finds every one and replaces it safely – with a preview before anything is saved.
Themes, page builders and plugins store settings as serialized data, which records the length of every text. A plain SQL replace changes the text but not the length, and the whole setting is lost. Ethereal Link Replacer unpacks the data, replaces the text and recalculates the lengths.
A dry run lists every change before the database is touched. Choose where to search – posts, post meta, options, terms, comments – and apply only when the list looks right. Every change is logged and can be downloaded as CSV.
siteurl and home are skipped on purpose so you never lock yourself out, regular expressions are checked before they run, and caches of the common page builders and caching plugins are cleared after the change.
Yes. Ethereal Link Replacer is free and open source on WordPress.org, without a paid version.
Always. Changes cannot be undone from inside the plugin, so take a full database backup and run a dry run first.
Yes. Replacements run in batches to keep memory low, and a WP-CLI command is included for very large migrations.
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