Old URL in buttons and elements

@mirshadrahman Thanks for reaching out.

When a new site is created it is duplicated from the templates and it should perform a search/replace of the old url to the new url. It sounds like that not happening for you. Are you using a page builder? how are the buttons structured?

If you share the live url of the template site and the duplicate and tell me where I can find the button with the wrong url, It would help me to troubleshoot this problem.

Hi @mirshadrahman ,

Thanks for reporting this — we’ve tracked down the issue and it turns out there were actually three related bugs in our site duplication code that were causing URLs in Elementor elements (buttons, links, etc.) to not get updated when creating a new site from a template.

Here’s what was happening in simple terms:

1. Replacement was getting skipped prematurely. When we duplicate a site, we replace URLs in a specific order — upload folder URLs first, then the main site URL. On subdirectory installs like yours, once the upload URL was updated (e.g. /mirshad/wp-content/uploads → /mysite2/wp-content/uploads), our code saw that the new site name already existed in the data and incorrectly assumed the job was done — skipping the
   replacement for all remaining URLs like button links.
2. Elementor’s data format wasn’t fully accounted for. Elementor stores its page data as JSON, which escapes forward slashes (/ becomes \/). Our search-and-replace was looking for normal slashes and never matched the escaped versions, so Elementor URLs were silently skipped.
3. Deeply nested data wasn’t being processed. Some URL references buried inside nested data structures were also being missed.

Would you be able to test the fix on your site? You can install the branch version by downloading it from the PR page. Or directly https://nightly.link/Ultimate-Multisite/ultimate-multisite/actions/runs/21490680774/ultimate-multisite.zip After installing, try creating a new site from your template and check whether the button and element URLs are now correctly pointing to the new site. Let us know how it goes!