Troy Chaplin

<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.

John Godley

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


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.

Smart Media Replacement vs Search Regex