Marius L. J.

InstaWP

When working on themes and plugins you often notice a piece of text that appears hardcoded into the files, you need to modify it, but you don’t know what theme or plugin it’s in, and certainly not which individual file to look in.
Easily search through your themes, plugins or even WordPress core and be presented with a list of files, the matched text and what line of the file matched your search. 
You can then quickly make edits directly in your browser by clicking the link from the search results.
By default a consistency check is performed when making edits to files, this will look for inconsistencies with braces, brackets and parenthesis that are often accidentally left in. 
This drastically reduces the risk of breaking your site when making edits, but is in no way an absolute guarantee.
Create a replica of your live site a.k.a – <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/instawp-connect" rel="ugc">WordPress Staging</a> site before testing substitutions.

String locator

If someone had read my mind

Great plugin


I've used this plugin now a dozen times to track down plugins conflicts for my customers. Truly one of the best debug utilities, up there with Query Monitor!


Great for support

Find and edit code or texts in your themes and plugins

FluxPress

The Easy Search Replace plugin lets you find and replace any text, HTML, or URL across your WordPress site in real time — without editing files or touching the database. 
It’s the safest way to do search and replace on front-end output. Update branding, fix old links, swap outdated content, or remove footer credit with a few clicks.
Target replacements precisely with:
<ul>
<li>Post Types (Posts, Pages, WooCommerce Products, any CPT)</li>
<li>Specific Post IDs (comma separated)</li>
<li>Exact URLs (one per line)</li>
</ul>
Why it’s safe: 
All changes are applied dynamically at render time. Your posts, pages, and database stay untouched. Disable the plugin or toggle a rule off and your original content is back instantly.
Popular use cases
<ul>
<li>Remove footer credit — delete or replace any theme footer text, copyright notice, or “Powered by” link.</li>
<li>Replace company names — rebranding? Update every mention of your old name site-wide in seconds.</li>
<li>Fix old links — swap broken URLs, redirect HTTP → HTTPS links, or update moved resources.</li>
<li>WooCommerce text changes — rename “Add to cart” buttons, change checkout labels, or translate WooCommerce strings without code.</li>
<li>Hide plugin or theme branding — remove “Built with Elementor”, “Jepack stats”, or any injected text.</li>
<li>Conditional content — show different text to logged-in users, mobile visitors, or during specific date ranges (Pro).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
Free version:
<ul>
<li>Real-time search and replace for text, HTML, and URLs — no database changes.</li>
<li>Enable or disable each rule with a toggle (no need to delete and recreate).</li>
<li>Limit rules by post type, post ID, or URL (one per line).</li>
<li>Case-insensitive matching (Ignore Case option).</li>
<li>“Don’t match if page contains” safety switch — add a marker to any page you want to leave untouched.</li>
<li>Configurable “Skip HTML tags” setting — protect <code><script></code>, <code><style></code>, or any tag from being modified.</li>
<li>Multiple rules, executed in the order you define.</li>
<li>Lightweight: buffer filtering only starts if you have active rules.</li>
</ul>
Pro features (<a href="https://fluxpress.io/plugins/easy-search-replace/" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy Search Replace Pro</a>):
<ul>
<li>CSS selector targeting — restrict replacements to elements matching <code>.footer</code>, <code>#main</code>, <code>h1</code>, or any CSS selector. Inspect the element in your browser and paste the class or ID. Perfect for removing footer credits from a specific element without affecting the rest of your page.</li>
<li>Regex patterns — full PHP regex with smart defaults. <code>.</code> matches newlines and patterns are UTF-8 aware by default. Write <code><div class="x">.*?unwanted.*?</div></code> and it just works.</li>
<li>Match text between two markers — replace everything between a “starts with” and “ends with” snippet without writing regex. Safer because it stops at the first end marker.</li>
<li>Scheduled rules — activate rules only within specific date ranges, times of day, or weekdays. Perfect for seasonal banners, holiday promotions, or timed content swaps.</li>
<li>Audience & device targeting — show different replacements for logged-in users vs guests, target specific user roles, or serve different content to desktop, mobile, or tablet visitors.</li>
<li>Exclusion rules — apply a rule everywhere EXCEPT specific post types, post IDs, or URLs.</li>
<li>Import / Export — export rules as JSON or CSV for backups. Bulk import hundreds of rules at once from CSV for agency migrations.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Open Settings → Easy Search Replace.</li>
<li>Find: Enter the text/HTML/URL to search.</li>
<li>Replace with: Enter the replacement (leave empty to remove — great for footer credits).</li>
<li>(Optional) Limit by Post Types, Post IDs, or URLs (one per line).</li>
<li>Enable Ignore case if needed.</li>
<li>Add multiple rules and Save Changes.</li>
</ol>
Full documentation with examples: <a href="https://fluxpress.io/docs/easy-search-replace/" rel="nofollow ugc">fluxpress.io/docs/easy-search-replace</a>
<h3>Examples</h3>
Replace text globally
Find: Old Company 
Replace: New Company
Remove footer credit
Find: Powered by MyTheme 
Replace: (leave empty)
Remove “Powered by WordPress”
Find: Powered by WordPress 
Replace: (leave empty) 
(Optionally set CSS selector to <code>.site-info</code> in Pro for precision)
Replace URL site-wide
Find: http://oldsite.com 
Replace: https://newsite.com
Change WooCommerce button text
Find: Add to cart 
Replace: Buy now
Only on specific posts
Find: Coming Soon 
Replace: Launching Now 
Post IDs: 25,47,88
Case-insensitive 
Enable Ignore case to match “WordPress”, “wordpress”, “WORDPRESS”, etc.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
Easy Search Replace includes optional anonymous usage tracking to help improve compatibility and the plugin experience.
Disabled by default and only enabled after explicit opt-in.
No personal data, site content, emails, IP addresses, usernames, or passwords are collected.

Easy Search Replace – Find & Replace Text/HTML/URLs, Remove Footer Credit

Real-time search & replace for text, HTML, and URLs. Target by post type, ID, or URL. Safely remove footer credit — no database changes.

String locator vs Easy Search Replace – Find & Replace Text/HTML/URLs, Remove Footer Credit