[wp-hackers] Absolute vs. relative URLs

[Knut-Olav Hoven]

On Saturday 21 April 2007 14:50:09 Leonid Mamchenkov wrote:
> Absolute URLs is about the biggest problem in our
> development/deployment process for our customer's web sites.  Since
> most of them already have web sites online, we can't develop under the
> target domain.  We use a different host instead, and after everything
> is done and ready, we have to change the 'home' and 'siteurl' values
> in wp_options, 'guid' in wp_posts, and do a search-and-replace through
> the text of all pre-set posts and pages ('About us', 'Contact us', and
> whatever else the customer might have requested).

Check out a plugin i wrote that can be used to override options from the 
database, such as home and siteurl.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/df-fileconf/



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