I’ve been scouring the internet for months for this particular issue.  It must not be very common. Ever since I moved my site from one source (local IP address) to another (web facing URL) I have had issues with bad links (things pointing to the old address instead of the new one.)

I have mostly resolved them (using methods from this post) but one vexing issue remained: links in wp-admin.php remained bad; specifically, the  column headers and pagination links in the All Posts section of managing the site – they all still pointed to the backend IP address instead of the domain name of the site.

I found a few bug reports mentioning this but no clear resolution. After investigating ticket 18944 I was put on the right track. One link from that ticket pointed me in the right direction, but the comment that really drove me to the resolution was the last one:

Any proxy configuration is “supported” by WordPress, you just need to remap the server vars based on whatever that particular proxy configuration is using.

This is proxy 101.

That made me realize that when I changed from a local IP to a public facing IP, I also went from direct access to the blog to being behind a reverse proxy. The issue I’ve been having is a proxy issue, not a site move issue. Thanks to the comment above, I learned I need to add a single line to wp-config.php:

$_SERVER[ 'HTTP_HOST' ]   = "jeppson.org";

Replace jeppson.org with the base URL of your site. That’s it! all links are correct now. Brilliant.