[wp-testers] Absolute URLs hard-coded on database

[Paul]

Wasn't this covered in a Jan 2009 thread I started on using shortcodes  
for images? And shot down in flames.
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-January/024098.html

P-

On Mar 18, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Paul Robinson wrote:

> I believe the hardcoded attachments are just incase your post gets  
> harvested
> by one of those bot things so that attachment links still link back  
> to your
> site correctly. As for any other reasons I'm stumped & I agree it's  
> a pain
> in the backside moving from test to production. I always used a find &
> replace SQL query to do it.
>
> Paul.
>
> 2009/3/18 Leo germani <leogermani at gmail.com>
>
>> hmm. actually no.
>>
>> Im referring to the site_ur and home options on the options table,  
>> as well
>> as all the guid fields for all the attachments, the links to all  
>> the images
>> inside all the posts, and other options that also store hard-coded  
>> full
>> URLs...
>>
>> this is specially bad when moving the site from a test server to
>> production,
>> for instance...
>>
>> Leo,,
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Xavier Borderie  
>> <xavier at borderie.net
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Isn't it due to this effort?
>>> http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/wordpress-23-canonical-urls/
>>>
>>> -x.
>>>
>>> 2009/3/18 Leo germani <leogermani at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if Im the only one here that gets annoyed with the  
>>>> amount of
>>>> absolute URLs and paths that are hardcoded in the wordpress  
>>>> database.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anybody out there who is also unhappy with this and is  
>>>> there
>> any
>>>> effort to get rid of this? Id love to help on this refactor...
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> Leo,,
>>>>
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