Surflab

Raiyan Mrf

SurfLink is designed to Search & Replace, Easy Redirection, 404/410 Manager, Link Shortener, Auto Linking, Backup & Restore, Hide Login Url Security.
<h3>Search and Replace</h3>
Safely perform bulk find-and-replace operations directly on the database. 
* Database Management: Supports all tables and handles serialized data (critical for preventing data corruption). 
* Safety First: Includes a “Dry Run” mode to test before applying, case-sensitivity toggles, and specific GUID handling. 
* Title Updater: Update post titles in pages, posts and custom post types. 
* History Logs: View detailed logs of changes with a “View Changes” diff modal (Before vs. After). 
* Easy URL Updater (Pro): A dedicated visual interface to update old domain names or migrate HTTP to HTTPS across contents, attachments, and links. 
* Rerun Operation (Upcoming): Re-run a Search & Replace operation from the History Logs.
<h3>Redirects, 410 & 404s</h3>
A complete suite for managing traffic and broken links. 
* Redirect Manager: Create 301, 302, or 307 redirects. 
* Advanced Rules (Pro): Redirect based on Regex, “Starts With”, “Contains”, “Is 404”, User Agent, or even redirect to Random Posts. 
* Redirect List: View redirects in a nice table. Create, edit, and delete redirects. 
* Dead Link Handling: Monitor 404 logs and easily convert them to Redirects or 410 Gone status (to tell Google a page is permanently deleted). 
* Import/Export: Support for CSV import/export for bulk management.
<h3>Backup and Restore</h3>
Secure your site data with a few clicks. 
* Flexible Backups: Backup the entire database, specific directories (Uploads, Themes, Plugins), or both. 
* Selective Restore: Restore an entire site or just specific components (e.g., restore only the database, keep the themes). 
* Scheduled Auto Backups (Pro): Set it and forget it. Schedule daily or weekly backups to ensure you never lose data. 
* Upload & Restore (Mix): Restore backups from external files easily. Unlimited file size support in premium version. 
* Cross domain Restore: Restore backups from a different domain (e.g., staging, localhost, or a new production domain). 
* Remote Backups (Upcoming): Backup to a remote location (e.g., Google Drive) for long-term storage.
<h3>LoginHider Security</h3>
Protect your site from brute-force attacks. 
* Hide Login URL: Change your default <code>wp-login.php</code> to a custom slug (e.g., <code>/my-secret-entry</code>) and show a nice login form. 
* Options: Configure the custom login slug, max login attempts, and IP ban duration. 
* Limit Attempts: Log failed login attempts and automatically ban IPs after a set threshold. 
* Failed Login Logs: View detailed logs of failed login attempts. 
* IP Unbanning: Easily remove IP addresses from the ban list.
<h3>Module Manager</h3>
<ul>
<li>Module Manager: Enable/disable modules to keep your admin interface clean.</li>
<li>Background Processes: Also enable/disable background processes to optimize performance as needed.</li>
</ul>
* Advanced Options (Upcoming): You can enable/disable a specific sub-module in the Module Manager.
<h3>🟢 Free Features vs 🔴 Pro Features</h3>
<h4>Free Version Includes:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Search & Replace: Standard DB search/replace, Dry Run, History Logs, “View Changes” diff.</li>
<li>Easy Title Updater: Update post titles with a single click in post, page and custom post types. Dry Run, History Logs, “View Changes” diff.</li>
<li>Redirects: Add specific (single/bulk) redirects, 404 Logs, Specific 410 (Gone) status, Import/Export.</li>
<li>Backup: Manual Backup creation, Saved Backup logs, Manual Restore, Selective Restore.</li>
<li>Security: Login Hider settings, Failed login logs, IP Unbanning.</li>
<li>General: Module Manager (enable/disable features).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Version Includes:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easy URL Updater: Visual interface for URL migration.</li>
<li>Advanced Redirect Rules: Regex, Wildcards, Parameter handling, Random post redirects.</li>
<li>Link Shortener: Create and track branded shortlinks. Make QR codes for them.</li>
<li>Link Report: Dashboard, Link Reports, Domain Reports and Error Reports.</li>
<li>Broken Link Scanner: Scan all posts and terms for broken links.</li>
<li>Auto Linker Beta (Pro): Automatically link selected keywords in your future and present posts, pages, categories, tags, and custom post types.</li>
<li>Soft Linker (Pro): Link selected keywords just before the page is loaded. No hardcoding.</li>
<li>Hard Unlinker Beta (Pro): Automatically unlink posts, pages, categories, tags, and custom post types.</li>
<li>Group Tagging: Create, edit, and delete groups of shortlinks.</li>
<li>Advanced 410: Add 410s automatically from deleted items (trash/delete hooks).</li>
<li>Add Multisite 410: Add multiple 410s at once.</li>
<li>Scheduled Backups: Automated daily/weekly backups to keep your data safe.</li>
<li>Upload large files & Restore: Restore backups from external files with no size limitation.</li>
</ul>
<h3>SurfLink is compatible with these plugins</h3>
You can use these similar type plugins while keeping Surflink installed: PrettyLinks, BetterLinks, Redirection, Better Search Replace, UpdraftPlus, All-in-One WP Migration, Duplicator, BackWPup. 
Surflink will continue working alongside these. If you don’t want a specific module, you can always disable that Surflink module from module manager.

SurfLink – Link Manager & Backup Restore

Search & Replace, 301/302/307 Redirection, 404/410 Manager, Link Shortener, Auto Linking, Backup & Restore, Hide Login Url Security.

Delicious Brains

WP Engine

Matt Shaw

When moving your WordPress site to a new domain or server, you will likely run into a need to run a search/replace on the database for everything to work correctly. Fortunately, there are several plugins available for this task, however, all have a different approach to a few key features. This plugin consolidates the best features from these plugins, incorporating the following features in one simple plugin:
<ul>
<li>Serialization support for all tables</li>
<li>The ability to select specific tables</li>
<li>The ability to run a “dry run” to see how many fields will be updated</li>
<li>No server requirements aside from a running installation of WordPress</li>
<li>WordPress Multisite support</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
Time-saving features available in the Pro version:
<ul>
<li>View exactly what changed during a search/replace</li>
<li>Backup and import the database while running a search/replace</li>
<li>Priority email support from the developer of the plugin</li>
<li>Save or load custom profiles for quickly repeating a search/replace in the future</li>
<li>Support and updates for 1 year</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://bettersearchreplace.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about Better Search Replace Pro</a>
</blockquote>
The search and replace functionality is heavily based on interconnect/it’s great and open-source Search Replace DB script, modified to use WordPress native database functions to ensure compatibility.
Supported Languages
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
</ul>
Want to contribute?
Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request on <a href="https://github.com/deliciousbrains/better-search-replace/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

Better Search Replace

Perfekt

Long time in the past (maybe ~ 7 years ago?), I tried to find a way to search and replace inside WP serialized data.
I found out Better Search and Replace, and I never try another plugin. 
This one is the most reliable for me, thanks!

One of my favorite plugin for years


The plugin was good before, but now it lacks a lot of the functionality.


Good before, not anymore


This really make my life better. For real. Since I found this plugin al my migrations are FLAWLESS. So simple so good. Thanks a lot!!!


So good i cant belive


I was going to try doing some search and replacements, and chose to do the 'dry run' first, but apparently you can't view the results from the dry run, without upgrading to the paid version. This effectively makes it less than useless. I'm not going to run a search/replace on a table unless I can preview what's going to be changed first.


Can't preview 'dry run' changes in free plugin


Here is the thing.



I had changed my blog's domain name and had issues with the images still on the old domain name. So, they were not loading. At all. 



So, I went to ask uncle ChatGPT how to solve the issue. He told me I should try this plugin, and he was even generous enough to give me the instructions. In less than a minute, my issue was resolved. 



5 stars from me.



Thanks. 


Such a Powerful Plugin


I tried updating some data directly through SQL queries, but I kept running into issues—sometimes the data wasn’t updating properly, and other times I got errors that broke parts of my site.



Then I found Better Search Replace, and it worked perfectly. It updated everything smoothly, without any problems.



✅ Easy to use✅ Preview option before making changes✅ Safe and reliable



I highly recommend it—great tool for database updates!


Great Plugin – Saved Me from Database Errors

A simple plugin to update URLs or other text in a database.

SurfLink – Link Manager & Backup Restore vs Better Search Replace