Repair a partial WordPress migration with Claude Code: audit stored content, relink images and back up each edit
A site owner describes supervising Claude Code through Novamira MCP to find old-domain references that a crawl missed, repair image attachments and finish retiring a domain after a partial migration.
Evidence: The author reports this. We have not checked it beyond reading the source.
The business problem
A partial migration leaves duplicate pages and images dependent on the old domain.
What was tried
Audit post_content and postmeta directly: noindex posts had escaped the crawl. Back up each post's content to postmeta before editing. Download original images, sideload them into WordPress, replace links and stale attachment IDs, and update alt text in markup and attachment metadata. Regenerate missing thumbnails with WP-CLI. Separately, following their SEO contact's advice, the owner retired old URLs with 410 responses and fixed an empty-200 homepage with a hook.
What was reported (positive)
u/easyedy reports repairing about 87 hotlinked images and completing the cleanup under supervision. No traffic or ranking results are reported.
Limitations
One supervised account; no shared script or independent verification. The 410 decision was specific to retiring this domain, not a general migration prescription.
What you need
WordPress access, Claude Code, Novamira MCP, original images and WP-CLI in the described setup.
Sources
- u/easyedy on r/NavigateTech ↗ Community discussion, publication date unknown
Source published: unknown. Last reviewed here: November 2, 2026. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Tools in this workflow
- Claude Code: Assists with supervised audit and repairsTry Claude Code
- WordPress: Stores content and media; accessed through Novamira MCPTry WordPress
- WP-CLI: Regenerates missing thumbnailsTry WP-CLI
- Rank Math: Author's old-domain response rulesTry Rank Math
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