Old URL still displaying randomly in posts

nilla2014 · Member · Sep 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm
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I’ve taken a screenshot and uploaded to my library.

I changed my Domain name from “Image Earth Blog” to “Image Earth Travel” a while back. However, occasionally, my Stats display “Image Earth Blog” in the Clicks.

Ages ago, I went through each post and manually changed what wasn’t updated automatically, so I’m not sure how/why this is still occurring? Also, how can I ensure this doesn’t happen again?

Many thanks

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musicdoc1 · Member · Sep 18, 2017 at 7:26 am
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Hi,

I’m guessing that you might have missed some text or image links. You should be able to find all of them with searches, using the old URL, or part of it, as the keyword. E.g. search for “image-earth-blog.com” or whatever the case may be.
nilla2014 · Member · Sep 18, 2017 at 3:49 pm
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Thanks, not sure what happened as I was pretty thorough on changeover.

I’ve done a search in Admin Posts and there were indeed about 18 posts with the old URL still embedded in the post. What is strange is that many of the photo URL’s still had the old name. I was advised by WP that the media library photos was supposed to be an automated change.

Also, my URL attached in post comments didn’t update.

Many thanks!
musicdoc1 · Member · Sep 18, 2017 at 4:36 pm
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Thanks for that additional information. That seems odd. Sounds like either the export or the import was incomplete during the transfer. I’ll call for staff attention to the topic. Staff will respond here.
nilla2014 · Member · Sep 19, 2017 at 3:03 pm
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Thank you.
supernovia · Staff · Sep 19, 2017 at 7:24 pm
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@nilla2014 I’m not seeing this. When you see it, would you send a screenshot of what you see? This article explains how:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/make-a-screenshot/

You’ll want to upload it to your media library, then respond here to let us know you have uploaded it.

Please also include the address from the address bar. We’ll go from there. Thanks!
nilla2014 · Member · Sep 20, 2017 at 8:36 am
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Hi,
I already updated the ‘Stats Click’ that shows the old URL in my Media Library.Screenshot

I’ve gone through and changed everything over now so hope there isn’t any rogues ones left in my site.

Thank you
supernovia · Staff · Sep 20, 2017 at 5:50 pm
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@nilla2014 Ahh okay, I understand; these are clicks from your site to your old site, which just gets redirected back.

The links in your posts may not have updated automatically. Do you want us to search for any others that still need fixes?
nilla2014 · Member · Sep 20, 2017 at 7:22 pm
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Think I’ve got them all but if you could search on my old URL: “Image Earth Blog” to see if I’ve missed any, that would be fantastic!

I thought that the images changed over automatically but for some reason some were missed.

Thanks again.
supernovia · Staff · Sep 20, 2017 at 8:22 pm
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@nilla2014 images would be updated; links wouldn’t necessarily be updated. But I searched all posts and pages and found no instances of imageearthblog.com, so you should be good to go :)
nilla2014 · Member · Sep 21, 2017 at 4:24 pm
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Excellent! Thank you for confirming that for me – excellent support as always. :-)
supernovia · Staff · Sep 21, 2017 at 10:14 pm
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Cheers, @nilla2014 :D
musicdoc1 · Member · Sep 21, 2017 at 10:22 pm
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@to whom it may concern,

Please ignore my comment regarding export/import. I was evidently confusing the change of address process with the transfer of a website to another WordPress.com site process.

Thanks supernovia. : )
supernovia · Staff · Sep 21, 2017 at 11:51 pm
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@musicdoc1 no big deal – the behind-the-scenes stuff behind the two processes can be easy to confuse. Thank you for your help here, as always!

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