Fixing Broken Links After Moving Your WordPress Site

Sometimes you need to update broken links when you change your WordPress® domain name, or move your WordPress Website to a new server. If you find broken images and hyperlinks throughout your Website when it's back online, you might need to clean your Website of outdated link paths.

To Fix Broken Links After Moving Your WordPress Website

1. Log in to your WordPress admin panel.
2. From the Plugins menu, click Add New.
3. Type Search and replace, and then click Search Plugins.
4. Locate the Search and Replace plugin, and then click Install Now.
5. Click OK.
6. Click Activate Plugin.
7. From the Tools menu, click Search and Replace.
8. Enter your old Website's URL in the Search for field. For example, http://olddomainexample.com (no trailing slash).
9. Enter your new Website's URL in the Replaced with field. For example, http://newdomainexample.com (no trailing slash).
10. Select All, and then click Go.

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