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<p>Smart Media Replacement is a WordPress plugin that allows you to replace media files while maintaining their original URLs and metadata. This is particularly useful for updating files like PDFs, images, or other documents without breaking existing links, especially when organizing media in year and month based folders.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Replace media files while maintaining original URLs</li>
<li>Preserves all existing links (both internal and external)</li>
<li>Maintains file metadata and relationships</li>
<li>Simple and intuitive interface in the WordPress Media Library</li>
<li>Supports all file types supported by WordPress</li>
<li>Validates file names to prevent accidental URL changes</li>
<li>Enforces dimension matching for images to prevent layout issues</li>
<li>Automatically handles WordPress scaled images</li>
<li>Validates file type matching to ensure consistency</li>
<li>AJAX-based replacement with error handling</li>
</ul>
<h4>Important Requirements</h4>
<p><strong>Filename Matching</strong><br />
The new file MUST have exactly the same filename as the original file. For example, if your original file is <code>logo.png</code>, your replacement must also be named <code>logo.png</code>.</p>
<p><strong>Image Dimensions (Images Only)</strong><br />
For images, the replacement MUST have identical dimensions (width × height) to prevent layout issues.</p>
<p><strong>File Types</strong><br />
The replacement file must be the same file type as the original. The plugin validates MIME types to ensure consistency.</p>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>This plugin:<br />
* Does not collect or transmit any user data<br />
* Does not use cookies<br />
* Only processes files locally on your server<br />
* Does not communicate with external services</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to the WordPress Media Library</li>
<li>Find the file you want to replace</li>
<li>Click on the file to view its details</li>
<li>Look for the “Replace File” button in the attachment details</li>
<li>Click “Replace File” and select your new file</li>
<li>The replacement will happen automatically</li>
</ol>


Smart Media Replacement

Replace media files while maintaining their original URLs and metadata. Update PDFs, images, or documents without breaking existing links.

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<p>With this powerful WordPress find replace plugin, you’ll be able to modify the content of posts, pages, comments, titles, and excerpts just before they are displayed on the front end without any need to make changes to the WordPress database.</p>
<p>This WordPress plugin generates dynamic rules that enable consistent replacement of HTML and text generated not only by your page content but also plugins before a page is loaded to a user’s browser.</p>
<h3>Search Replace Premium Edition</h3>
<p>The <a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/purchase-cm-on-demand-search-and-replace-plugin-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Search and Replace Plugin Premium edition</a> includes even more powerful features, such as: store search and replace changes to databse, log all changes made, regex support, time based search and replace rules and much more.</p>
<h3>Search Replace Plugin Introduction Video</h3>
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<h3>WordPress Search Replace Plugin Use-Cases</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Profanity Filter</strong> – Our WordPress plugin gives you the ability to censor bad words posted in comments, content generated by plugins, as well as pages or posts.</li>
<li><strong>HTML Replacement</strong> – Replace HTML code on the fly.</li>
<li><strong>Image Replacement</strong> – Replace images on the fly.</li>
<li><strong>Schedule Content</strong> – Schedule content changes for particular dates or durations.</li>
<li><strong>Database Changes</strong> – Make permament changes to the content in the database.</li>
<li><strong>Log Changes</strong> – Log all changes.</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Search Replace Plugin Basic Version Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create any number of rules for replacing regular text and html.</li>
<li>Applies replacement rules that can help in standarizing WordPress posts and pages.</li>
<li>Performs replacements only locally and doesn’t save them to the database.</li>
<li>Supports scanning content for case sensitive words.</li>
<li>Choose if to search and replace content in images URLs.</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Search Replace Plugin Pro Version Features</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/search-and-replace-plugin-for-wordpress/#features" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Version Detailed Features List</a></p>
<ul>
<li>Define search/replace rules for site and page titles, content, excerpts, link, comments and images.</li>
<li>Support custom posts types.</li>
<li>Support Regex rules.</li>
<li>Support search replace based on timeframes.</li>
<li>Support search replace only on specific posts.</li>
<li>Support search replace only on specific post categories, tags or other taxonomies.</li>
<li>Rules Management – pause, edit, delete and easily change the order of rules.</li>
<li>Includes log for changes that are made on the fly.</li>
<li>Includes log for permanent changes in the database.</li>
<li>Import and export rules.</li>
<li>Search within rules.</li>
<li>Frontend widget to turn rules on and off.</li>
<li>Ensures additional content support for plugins like Yoast, BBPress, WooCommerce, ACF and CM Tooltip Glossary.</li>
<li>Optionally, commit replacement rules to the database so they will be permanent.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Suggested Plugins by CreativeMinds</h3>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://glossaryplugin.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">CM Tooltip Glossary</a> – Easily creates a Glossary, Encyclopaedia or Dictionary of your website’s terms and shows them as a tooltip in posts and pages when hovering. With many more powerful features.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.answersplugin.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">CM Answers Plugin</a> – A fully-featured WordPress Questions & Answers Plugin that allows you to build multiple discussion forum systems Just like StackOverflow, Yahoo Answers and Quora, Now with MicroPayments and Anonymous posting support.</li>
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<h3>WordPress Search and Replace Plugin Frequently Asked Questions</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/purchase-cm-on-demand-search-and-replace-plugin-for-wordpress/#plugin-faq" rel="nofollow ugc">More FAQ’s</a></p>


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