Elementor Links Not Converting from Localhost to Demo Site

[Zee-al-eid]

Quick summary

When migrating a website from a local environment (localhost) to a demo site using WordPress Developer Tools, video and video poster links remain unchanged in the page source. While image links are correctly converted, video links retain the localhost path, preventing them from loading on the demo site.

Steps to reproduce

1. Develop a WordPress site locally using Elementor.
2. Upload images and videos to the media library and insert them into posts/pages.
3. Export and migrate the website to a demo environment using WordPress Developer Tools.
4. Check the page source code on the demo website:
5. Image links are converted correctly.
6. Video and video poster links still point to http://localhost/... instead of the new demo URL.

What you expected to happen

All media links, including images, videos, and video poster links, should be updated to the demo site’s URL upon migration.

What actually happened

• Video and video poster links in the page source retained their original localhost paths, that results in videos not loading on the demo website.
• The video URLs in the media library works, but embedded video sources remain unchanged in the post’s source code.

Impact

Most (> 50%)

Available workarounds?

No but the app is still usable

Platform

Windows, Mac Silicon, Mac Intel

Logs or notes

Example of an incorrect link after migration:
http://localhost:8884/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Starfish-Landing-Page.webm
Expected correct conversion:
https://clearly-splendid-reticulated.wp.build/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Starfish-Landing-Page.webm

[wojtekn]

Thanks for reporting the issue @Zee-al-eid , we are checking that.

[jartes]

👋🏻 This issue came to the triage queue. I added normal priority and I'll mark it as triaged, as you are already investigating it :)