This is a post I wrote for the iWeb blog looking at interconnect/it’s safe search and replace tool. A handy script used while moving WordPress from one location to another. The script performs a find and replace on the database without breaking the integrity of serialised data.

WordPress generates and stores absolute URLs in it’s database. This makes it difficult to move between staging and production or simply changing its location. Today we’ll be taking a look at one of the tools we use at iWeb. interconnect/it’s safe search and replace tool which updates hardcoded links in the database and in our opinion makes working with WordPress easier. Why does WordPress…

Moving WordPress with a safe search and replace tool