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I will try to explain myself as best as possible:

  • I have a live WordPress website which has over 600 posts and 1000 images used in these posts.
  • I have a local copy running at http://localhost/my-wordpress-site.
  • I use WP Migrate DB to export posts from the live site.
  • When I export with WP Migrate DB, it finds and replaces the live site URL (//my-wordpress-site.com) with the local URL (//localhost/my-wordpress-site) so that links will work locally.

The problem I have is that it changes the links to all the images. My goal is to keep the image links the same (i.e. pointing to the images on the servers) so I don’t have to download thousands of images to my local machine.

How can I keep the images URLs pointing to the images on the server? Do I have to modify the DB directly?

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  • If you're referring to any images that are placed in post/page content via the text-editor, this isn't something that you can just change a table or two in the db and it will apply everywhere. There is a wp_posts table that shows the data for all posts and a "content" column, but you'll be there literally forever trying to go that route. If you change the site url or home url, that's going to affect your local url. Try this plugin: wordpress.org/plugins/upload-url-path-enabler
    – RachieVee
    Dec 9, 2014 at 18:25
  • Also you can try this method if that plugin doesn't help, this is a code method without tinkering with the database: blog.room34.com/archives/5091
    – RachieVee
    Dec 9, 2014 at 18:29

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Try changing "siteurl" and "home" in your wp_options table. The rest of the paths should stay the same then.

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