Title: Issues migrating to new domain + HTTPS [Solved]
Last modified: October 31, 2016

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# Issues migrating to new domain + HTTPS [Solved]

 *  Resolved [aaronspainaus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronspainaus/)
 * (@aaronspainaus)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-migrating-to-new-domain-https-solved/)
 * G’day!
 * In case anyone else has the same problem, I’d like to post this on the support
   forums.
 * Recently I migrated my site ([https://saveditservices.com](https://saveditservices.com))
   from [http://wordpress.saveditservices.com](http://wordpress.saveditservices.com),
   and had a complete nightmare of a time trying to figure out why my SSL cert wasn’t
   completely working.
    I noticed in the final pagecode that the ‘favicon’, slider
   images, and all the image references within the Guardian theme were showing the
   old “[http://wordpress](http://wordpress)..” address rather than the new “[https://saved…&#8221](https://saved…&#8221);
   one. I couldn’t fix it within the wp-admin whatsoever, so I had to manually go
   in to the SQL database and change the text within the field “guardian_options”.
 * This fixed it, and took me about six to seven hours to figure out what was causing
   it and where to go to fix it.
 * Hope this helps!
 * Cheers,
    Aaron.
 * P.S. Devs, please change the host references in your img tags so that they’re
   not using permalinks, as it’s a nightmare to migrate them.
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [aaronspainaus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronspainaus/).

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 *  Thread Starter [aaronspainaus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronspainaus/)
 * (@aaronspainaus)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-migrating-to-new-domain-https-solved/#post-8374994)
 * Update: A few minutes later, this has borked my Home page and it was restored
   to default settings.
    Luckily I do backups before any major changes!
 *  Thread Starter [aaronspainaus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronspainaus/)
 * (@aaronspainaus)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-migrating-to-new-domain-https-solved/#post-8375025)
 * Update2: I figured out how the field “guardian_options” works: it’s JSON, and
   each string is preceded by a string-length indicator. If you change the text,
   you have to change the string length field.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-migrating-to-new-domain-https-solved/#post-8375025)
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