Changing a link on every site at once

When a money site moves domain, a page is retired or an anchor has to change, you do not need to open every WordPress admin. The Link Tracker's bulk editor makes the change on every site in one job.

Step by step

1. Reach → Link Tracker in the dashboard menu, and open the domain whose links you want to change.
2. Under Change these links, choose what to do:

• Point them somewhere else. Enter the new address (it must start with https:// or http://, or be a path on the same site starting with /). Fill in New wording only if every link should say the same thing; leave it empty to keep each link's own words.
• Remove the links. The link is taken off and its words or image stay in the post.

1. Under Which sites, tick the sites to change, or tick none to change every site that links to this domain.
2. Select Review this change and read the numbers: how many links, posts and sites the edit will change. Confirm with Make the change.

While it runs and after

The edit runs in the background, site by site. Its page shows each site's result: changed, already gone (the link was no longer there), not editable from here, or failed with the reason. One failed site never stops the others.

Earlier changes, on the same page, lists every edit made to this domain's links. Undo this puts back exactly what an edit replaced, on the sites where it made a change; the undo is recorded as an edit of its own, so the list shows both.

Good to know

• Edits change the WordPress database directly, so they apply to WordPress sites. Static, PHP and Node sites appear in the report but are not edited.
• The report refreshes once a day, so a changed link moves to its new domain in the list after the next daily read.
• Changing links needs permission to edit links; anyone on the account who can view links can read the report and the preview.