Bard: automatically replace absolute urls with entry IDs

[stuartcusackie]

I'm migrating a large WP site over to Statamic and the most time consuming thing is replacing internal absolute urls on bard links with Entry IDs.

I've been trying to figure out an artisan command to do it but the best I can think of is using a file reader on each markdown file, running through it line by line and attempting to replace each url line when a matching entry is found, then rewriting the entire markdown file. I'm not going to do this as I'm afraid it will break the markdown or lose content.

I think the easiest thing would be if when saving a bard field it checks all links for matching entries and performs an automatic replacement.

And if you're wondering, why don't I just keep the absolute urls? It's because we're moving from urls with trailing slashes (WP) to ones with no trailing slash.

Thanks!