URL Changer

The URL Changer rewrites a URL everywhere it appears on your site in one operation — for domain migrations, restructured paths, or a link target that moved.

What it does

Find every link to an old URL across all your content and replace it with a new one, with a preview of exactly what will change before anything is written.

How it works

You give it an old URL and a new URL and pick a match mode:

• Smart match (default) — domain- and path-aware. Enter just a domain to match every link to it; enter a path to match that path and anything beneath it. Ideal for migrations ("move everything from old.example.com to the new domain").
• Exact match — rewrites only links whose URL is an exact, full-string match of what you entered.

Linkwise then shows a preview — every affected entry with a before/after of the link — so you confirm the blast radius first. On apply, it runs as a background job across all matched entries.

Two safety properties:

• Optimistic locking. Each entry carries a content hash from when the preview ran. If another editor saves an entry between preview and apply, that entry is skipped rather than overwritten — concurrent edits are never clobbered.
• Locale scope. On multilingual sites you can restrict the rewrite to one language.

Using it in the Control Panel

1. Open Linkwise → URL Changer.
2. Enter the old URL and the new URL, choose Smart or Exact match, and (optionally) a locale.
3. Click Preview to see every entry and link that would change.
4. Apply to run the rewrite in the background. It's cancellable, and the result is recorded in the Activity Log.

Settings

No configuration-file options — match mode (Smart / Exact) and locale scope are chosen per operation in the Control Panel.

Notes & limits

• Always Preview first — it's the safest way to confirm scope on a large site.
• Entries edited by someone else after the preview are skipped, not overwritten; re-run if you need to catch them.
• The URL Changer rewrites links in content; it doesn't create redirects. Pair it with Statamic redirects if you also need old URLs to forward.