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#41529 Relatives urls in Wordpress

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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 26 January 2025 16:10 CST

Friday, 24 January 2025 11:47 CST

houba_houbi

Hello

I have been using Akeeba Backup pro for years and I create most of my sites with Joomla but some also with Wordpress.
The disadvantage of Wordpress is that it uses absolute urls unlike Joomla which uses relative urls (which is great). So every time you move a Wordpress site it is a nhorror with the urls to change. So I use when designing the Wordpress site a plugin "Absolute <> Relative Urls" which allows not to have this disadvantage.
However it seems to me to have seen in the kickstart process that Akeeba Backup takes care of it unless I am mistaken? Consequently I can for my future websites no longer use this plugin (because I am afraid that it will no longer work one day - last update 4 years ago)?

Thanks

Sunday, 26 January 2025 16:10 CST

nicholas

Correct. The penultimate step of restoring a WordPress site is data replacement where we replace the absolute URLs and absolute filesystem paths stored in the database with the corresponding information of the location the site is being restored to.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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