Moving a WordPress site has always meant fixing countless broken URLs. The links still pointed to the old domain, the images didn’t load, and the cover blocks lost their background. Not anymore! WordPress Importer now migrates the URLs in your imported content.
A Real Example
Imagine you’re editor-in-chief of https://yummy-🍲-recipes.org/vegan — an imaginary cooking site with vegan recipes. Your reader base is growing, things are going well, but when you meet people in person, they find it difficult to type in that emoji. You decide to move to an all-ASCII domain: https://yummy-cooking-recipes.org/
Your first step is exporting the site content. You go
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