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Change the siteurl and home addresses

Caution: This command changes the system. Understand what it does before you run it.

Adjust the values, the command updates live
user@server
wp option update siteurl 'https://example.com' --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs && wp option update home 'https://example.com' --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs

Overwrites the siteurl and home options with the given address, without a trailing slash. Restores access when a wrong address was accidentally entered in the dashboard. Important for SEO: the address set here determines canonical URLs, the sitemap and internal links.

Note: This does not change content with old URLs. Use wp search-replace for that as well.

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