Absolute Relative URLs
Want to host your Wordpress site from a different domain? This plugin will help!
The facts
- Rating
- 3★ from 6
- Active installs
- 1k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 2 Apr 2021
- Added
- Mar 2016
- Requires WP
- 4.4.0
- Tested up to
- WP 5.7.17
- Downloads
- 27,996
Our analysis
AI-assistedAbsolute Relative URLs is a WordPress plugin designed to facilitate the management of URLs when migrating content between different domains. It allows you to develop or stage a site on one domain and go live on another, as well as back up and restore content across domains with minimal effort.
The plugin saves URLs as relative URLs during content creation and switches them back to absolute URLs when the content is viewed. This makes it suitable for users who need to manage content across multiple domains or installations, including standalone and multi-site setups.
Best for: This plugin is suitable for developers or site administrators managing multiple domains or migrating content.
What it does well
- ✓Facilitates migration between different domains
- ✓Saves URLs as relative URLs for adaptability
- ✓Supports SEO by reverting to absolute URLs when content is viewed
- ✓Allows for easy content copying between related domains
- ✓Configurable rules for URL conversions
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on specific features and configurations
- •May require technical knowledge for optimal use
Verdict
Absolute Relative URLs offers useful functionality for managing URLs across domains, but its effectiveness may depend on your technical expertise and specific use cases.
From the developer
intuitart's own description of Absolute Relative URLs, lightly tidied.
- Develop/stage in one domain, go live in another.
- Backup a production site from one domain, restore to a test site at another domain.
- Migrate from one domain to another with minimal effort.
- Ease migration between stand alone and multi-site installations.
- Ease migration between domain and sub-folder installations.
- Switch between ssl and non-ssl sites.
- Always present your content in an SEO friendly way.
We aim to achieve these capabilities with this plugin. The idea is to remove creator urls as content is produced, and play the current url when content is viewed. By default, WordPress saves the local url with content, and that makes it a challenge to access your content from a different domaim, even when you have a legitimate reason to do so.
This plugin makes your WordPress content adaptable in that you can present content from a domain other than the one in it which it was produced. It achieves this by saving URLs as relative URLs. At the same time it supports SEO requirements by reverting to absolute URLs when content is viewed.
In addition to moving the whole site to a new domain, you can identify specific domains as being related. This allows you to copy raw content from one related site and paste it into another. The plugin will recognize the related domain and remove it as it gets saved. Then it will display the absolute URLs of the current domain when it is viewed.
For the technically inclined, the plugin removes the get_bloginfo(‘url’) and get_bloginfo(‘wpurl’) parts of a URL as content is saved and inserts them again as content is viewed.
We use context and some configurable rules to determine when to apply conversions in both directions. Most of the time you can go with the defaults. If you have a situation where something doesn’t appear to work, let me know your experience (with as much detail as possible please).