Right. A little while ago, I’ve reported that I’ve broken a lot of the links since the move to a new domain name due to the fact that they still pointed to my blog’s old place at WordPress.com (and I’ve locked down my blog so it’s inaccessible). Now I’ve managed to fix it in a way that’s not the most convenient but is effective nonetheless.
I re-exported the blog using WordPress’s export function, which gave me an XML file containing all my blog contents. I did a massive find and replace on all links, and then imported to a new WordPress installation. Simple concept, and works beautifully. The only drawback is the amount of manual work required to set up the blog from scratch again.
Another way I could have done it was by searching through the entries in the database, and changing the links that way, but I kind of feel more comfortable just doing a find and replace on a text file. Maybe I’ll play around with databases a bit later.
The broken links that are left existed from before the move, and it’s good to finally have the tools (WordPress Broken Link Checker Plugin) to report such issues. With a wordpress.com blog, you don’t get that luxury.