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I’ve run the google-pagespeed-insight tool, on which one link has been marked as not being https.
Further investigations lead to a lot of links in wp_posts having http://localhost/(…) as links.

It may be due to me moving of the site from a localhost installation to the live webspace.

So I’m wondering, if i could delete those links, as they won’t really point anywhere.
Is there anything else i’d have to check, like other tables?

Thanks folks!

Investigated links via wp_posts and found lots of localhost ones.

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    Posts and pages with links to other posts and pages need to be updated when migrating WordPress sites from one origin domain (like http://localhost) to another (like https://example.com). Hyperlinks inside posts and pages need changing. Therefore, migration is a screaming pain in the xxx neck to do correctly unless you use a migration plugin to do the hard work for you. Then it’s simple.

    I use Duplicator, but there are several other good choices in the plugin repo.

    If you have the choice of repeating your migration using a plugin, that is a good way to handle this.

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    If the URL’s are not being triggered on the pages then you are free to delete them, however this could result in unwanted errors. Therefor I suggest you replace all old localhost URL’s inside of your database with your new URL.

    You can achieve this using the following SQL query.

    UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'oldurl.com', 'newurl.com') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'oldurl.com','newurl.com');UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'oldurl.com', 'newurl.com'); UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value,'oldurl.com','newurl.com');

    Or you can use a WordPress plugin, when I worked with WordPress we mostly used wp-all-import. Make sure that after you imported a website using any migration plugin you save the permalinks in the settings tab in wp-admin.

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