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July 26, 2025 17:09
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Elementor does some dumb things with site URLs,this script cleans that up
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<?php | |
// Load WordPress environment | |
require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' ); | |
// Define old and new URLs | |
$old_url = 'https://blxtraining.com'; | |
$new_url = 'https://biologix-wcupdate.sitedistrict.com'; | |
// Query all postmeta with Elementor data | |
global $wpdb; | |
$results = $wpdb->get_results(" | |
SELECT meta_id, meta_value | |
FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} | |
WHERE meta_key = '_elementor_data' | |
AND meta_value LIKE '%$old_url%' | |
"); | |
foreach ( $results as $row ) { | |
$meta_id = $row->meta_id; | |
$meta_value = $row->meta_value; | |
// Decode the serialized JSON | |
$data = maybe_unserialize( $meta_value ); | |
// Replace the old URL with the new one | |
$updated_data = json_decode( str_replace( $old_url, $new_url, json_encode( $data ) ), true ); | |
// Reserialize and update the database | |
$wpdb->update( | |
$wpdb->postmeta, | |
[ 'meta_value' => maybe_serialize( $updated_data ) ], | |
[ 'meta_id' => $meta_id ], | |
[ '%s' ], | |
[ '%d' ] | |
); | |
echo "Updated meta_id: $meta_id\n"; | |
} | |
echo "URL replacement complete.\n"; | |
?> |
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