Joost

Ever annoyed when you had to add that same opening sentence or image to a blogpost for the gazzilionth time? Or always wanted to have an easy way to insert youtube video’s to your site? 
Despair no more, now there is searchReplace. Well, there probably are a number of similar plugins, but this one is different: it is mine. 🙂
The plugin makes it possible to search for certain texts and replace them, in both comments and posts. It does not alter your database contents. 
For example, you could add the string “[topicimage]” to searchReplace and replace that with your default image tag. 
When changing your default image you only have to change the searchReplace item to change it site wide!
The plugin supports regular expressions as well, which makes it possible to do url replacements, or other more advanced search and replace commands.
Uses: Implementing BBcode (pre configured), replace foul language, easy YouTube insertion (pre configured) etc.
It has the following features:
<ul>
<li>Easily add, edit and delete rules</li>
<li>simple search and replace option</li>
<li>regular expression search and replace option</li>
<li>apply rules to comments, posts or both at once</li>
<li>Pre installed with BBcode (minus smilies and tables) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode</li>
</ul>

searchReplace

SearchReplace checks for and replaces content in your posts, pages and/or comments. Fully configurable.

John Godley

Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and other data sources. These go beyond the standard searching capabilities, and allow you to search and replace almost any data stored on your site. In addition to simple searches you have the full power of PHP’s regular expressions at your disposal.
You can use this to do things like: 
– Help migrate a site from one domain to another 
– Update URLs in links and images 
– Perform site-wide changes
Search filters can be created to match any column of any WordPress table. For example: 
– Find all posts in a category 
– Find all post meta data without a post 
– Find all posts in a date range
Search Regex handles small and large sites.
Search Regex has been tested with PHP from 7.4 to 8.4.
<h3>What can I search?</h3>
You can search: 
– Posts 
– Pages 
– Any custom post type 
– Comments (including spam) 
– Users 
– Meta data 
– WordPress options
Full regular expression support is provided, and you can capture data and use it in the replacement.
<h3>Actions</h3>
A variety of actions can be performed on matching results: 
– Modify and replace the result 
– Delete the result 
– Export to CSV and SQL 
– Perform custom PHP action
<h3>Modify and Replace Data</h3>
Results can be individually modified by clicking on the item to change, and using the popup modifier.
Bulk modifications can be performed against all matching results.
The types of modification depend on the data being changed: 
– Numbers can be added or subtracted to existing numbers 
– Hours, days, weeks, and months, can be added to dates 
– Tags and categories can be added, removed, and substitued
Custom shortcodes are supported that allow dynamic data to be included: 
– Add the current date and time, in any format, to content 
– Insert data from other columns. For example, insert the category into the title 
– Transform existing data. For example, convert case, change underscores to dashes.
<h3>Example uses</h3>
Some ideas for potential uses: 
– Delete all comments that match a phrase 
– Add a category to all matching posts 
– Remove orphaned meta data
<h3>Support</h3>
Please submit bugs, patches, and feature requests to:
<a href="https://github.com/johngodley/search-regex" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/johngodley/search-regex</a>
Please submit translations to:
<a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/search-regex" rel="nofollow ugc">https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/search-regex</a>
<h3>Translations</h3>
Translations are provided by WordPress itself. You can update the translations by going to the Dashboard > Updates section of WP admin.
<h3>Documentation</h3>
Full documentation can be found on the <a href="http://searchregex.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Search Regex</a> site.

Search Regex


Incredibly powerful search tool for your dashboard, especially useful if, for example, you've moved to a new server (or a new site structure), or someone's changed their name, or any other reason you might need to update a lot of things at once in the same way. Risky too - make sure you preview any replacements first!


Incredibly powerful!

Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and other data.

searchReplace vs Search Regex