WordPress Search and Replace Plugin Description
This WordPress search replace tool allows you to change the content of your posts, pages, comments, titles and excerpts just before they are displayed on the front end of your site, without making changes in the WordPress database.
This real-time search and replace tool applies any number of predefined rules after a page is generated by WordPress, but before it is sent to a user’s browser.
The admin can also commit permanent changes to the database on specific pages or the whole site.
Search and Replace Use Case Examples
- Save Time – Search and replace HTML errors on multiple pages at once and skip all manual work.
- Censor Bad Content – Quickly filter swear words and suspicious links posted anywhere on your website.
How To Use Search and Replace Plugin
- Create Rule – Tell the plugin what you want to replace. For instance, “http” should become “https”. Use Regex for more complex cases
- Case-sensitive? – Should the rule be consider and capture “John” but not “john”?
- Restrict Post Type – Define if the rule should affect posts, pages or custom post types
- Limit Pages – Exclude any number of pages from the rule
- Specify – Substitute in the title? Content? Excerpt? Comments? You choose
- Set Date – Pick a time frame (for instance, only last month)
Example of Replacements
- “http” to “https” in the content of all posts in the last 6 months
- “mark” to “Dr. Mark” in the title of all profile pages
- All IP addresses to “xxx” in BBPress forums
- “Beta Version” to “Final Version” in all WooCommerce Attribute labels
- “cminds” and “cmind” to “CreativeMinds” in the Yoast SEO Title of the last three pages
Using the WordPress Search and Replace Plugin
- Censor Bad Content – Censor comments, content generated by plugins on defined pages or posts.
- On-Demand Search and Replace Script – Make temporary changes in content and limit them to a specified time period.
- Replace HTML Code in your Content – Search and replace HTML code on the fly.
- Replace Images in Content – Search and replace images on the fly.
- Date and Time Controls – Feature content on specific dates or time periods.
- Target Specific Posts – Target specific posts or exclude other posts from being parsed.
- ACF and Yoast Support – Supports replacing content in ACF plugin and Yoast metadata fields.
- Frontend Widget to Toggle Replacements – Optionally add toggle on and off search and replace buttons on each post frontend for specific users.
- Save Changes to Database – Optionally add toggle to save changes made to a specific post to the database so they will be permanent.
WordPress Search & Replace Tool Additional Resources
- Plugin User Guide
- 5 Best Search and Replace WordPress Tools to Fix Content on Your Website
- WordPress Glossary of Terms
WordPress Search and Replace Tool Related Plugins
Best Search Replace Plugin Basic Features
- Define search and replace rules
- Supports posts and pages
- Supports text and html
- Supports case sensitive content
High Quality Search and Replace Plugin Premium Features
Please check the user guide to learn more about this essential plugin.
All WordPress Content Types – Define search and replace rules for comments, posts, pages, titles, content and excerpts View Screenshot: Specific Content Search and Replace. | |
Local Changes – Perform replacements only locally and don’t save them to the database | |
Update Database – Optionally, commit replacement rules to the database so they will be permanent | |
Limit to Specific Post Types – This word replacer plugin supports search and replace only on specific types of content or custom posts.. | |
Modify or Remove Content – This WordPress editor plugin allows you to modify search and remove the content without replacing it. | |
Case Sensitive – This Word Replacer tool supports case sensitive replacements. | |
Rules Management – Pause certain rules or delete them. | |
Frontend Widget – Save time by using front-end control widget to turn search and replace on and off. | |
Import and Export Rules – Import and export rules between your sites. | |
Drag and Drop – Easily change and modify the order of rules using drag and drop interface. | |
Time restricted search and replace – Supports applying the search and replace rules on specific dates.View Screenshot: Time based search and replace. | |
Target Specific Posts – Easily handle and target rules for specific posts or pages with this text editor plugin. | |
Regex search and replace – Use Regex search and replace statements.View Screenshot: Regex search and replace rule. | |
ACF – Special support for Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin fields. | |
WooCommerce – Special support for WooCommerce labels. | |
bbPress – Special Support for bbPress content. | |
Yoast – Special Support for Yoast content. | |
Replace Text – Supports text replace in the post editor. | |
Open-Source – This sitewide search replace plugin is an open source tool. | |
Text and HTML – Easily search and replace text or html tags throughout the entire WordPress system. |
WordPress Search and Replace Plugin Frequently Asked Questions
Please check the user guide to learn more about this simple plugin.
Can I replace the titles of posts?
Can I limit changes to a week?
Can I use this awesome plugin to replace product names and attributes?
Absolutely. If you happened to change the title of one of your product names, you can easily replace it using the Search and replace plugin. You can also change other product attributes, such as the short and long descriptions, color, size etc, but bear in mind the changes will not be saved on your database, which is why this method is more suitable if you’re interested in a temporary change rather than a permanent one.
I am migrating my WordPress website to a new URL/domains and unsure about where and how to update old URLs in the database, I want to skip the tedious process of manually changing the Domain/URL, Can this Plugin help in migration?
Is there any option for the restoring the data?
Does this plugin support any language?
Is there any free version of this plugin?
I need to exclude a content replacement rule from my excerpts. Is that possible?
Yes. When creating a new content replacement rule, you can mark one or more of the following parameters as excluded from the search & replace rule:
- Titles
- Content
- Excerpt
- Comments
You can also add other areas to exclude according to your personal preferences. The selected areas will not be affected by the new content replacement rule.
Can I create case sensitive Search & Replace rules?
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Customer Reviews for the Search and Replace
- Awesome!Works just as stated, and is simple to install.
- Great plugin, helped me a lot~200 pages of articles, with most of them needing links replaced. CM On Demand Search and Replace helped me turn this job (that I feared will take me days) into a simple, easy and fast one. Thank you!
- Amazing Plugin!!!! Very Easy to Use.This plugin does the job excellently well!I’ve been searching endlessly for days on how to change some texts on my site pages into html image codes to no avail.I saw a few solutions that mentioned changing those texts from the database level – no way am I tampering with the DB – I stayed clear (Except you know what you’re doing, don’t mess with your db)! I also found some forms of javascript tweak but they all didn’t do the job perfectly, breaking my pages atimes.This plugin came to the rescue. The ease of use is amazing: just copy and paste – one to the left the other to the right. That’s it.Thanks so much for making that core plugin function of search and replace free-of-charge. Although there is a little advert at the bottom of the pages I applied it but that can easily be edited out if you want to in the Edit page area.Thanks a bunch.
- simple powerful and fastIt was so simple and I was able to find effects instantlyhttp://packetflows.com
- Great plugin!!!The plugin and especially the customer support is great! I had the following problem: I auto created 25.000 posts to my website that each had a different title and different content. However, I made a mistake and each title contained a “#” sign in the title. So, I bought this plugin to get rid of the “#” sign in each single title of all the 25.000 posts on my website. I tried but had problems figuring it out. Then I contacted customer support that could help me straight away! Now, all my post titles are perfect! I can recommend this plugin a lot!
- Fast and efficient pluginThanks!
- Powerful Plugin!Great, fast, efficient plugin. great support! You can use it to change anything in your site without editing theme files, it’s the complementary to “custom CSS” it’s custom HTML!
- Simple and valuable!Great solution to replace words on the fly without really editing content.
Search and Replace Release Notes
Version 1.4.0 04th July 2020
- Added method to completely replace specific string in DB
Version 1.3.0 22nd Jan 2020
- Bugfix in Make changes permanent in DB feature
Version 1.2.10 30th Nov 2019
- Added: export-import of replacement rules in CSV format
Version 1.2.9 14th Nov 2019
- Bugfix in replacement rules section
Version 1.2.8 26th Oct 2019
- Added support to all/include/exclude posts/pages in replacement rules
- Updated package 1.8.9
Version 1.2.7 25th June 2019
- Added functionality to save replacement changes permanently to DB. Functionality is accessible for posts via plugin’ widget settings
Version 1.2.6 6th Apr 2019
- Added support to additional WooCommerce labels
- Updated the Licensing Package
Version 1.2.5 25th Mar 2019
- Added option to enable Search&Replace in the site title tag
- Fixed the problem with “Location” dropdown not showing all posts.
- Updated the Licensing Package
- Fixed small bugs
Version 1.2.4 4th June 2017
- Update plugin licensing package
Version 1.2.3 10th May 2017
- Fixed the notice in the settings
- Fixed the problem with the invisible button on the Licensing page
Version 1.2.2 28th April 2017
- Fixed the notice in the settings
- Fixed the problem with the invisible button on the Licensing page
Version 1.2.1 15th March 2017
- Added the option to restrict the replacement rule to single post/page
- Fixed import and export dashboard
- Fixed some notices
Version 1.2.0 6th Feb 2017
- Added drag and drop support
- Added Yoast SEO support
- Make adjustment in plugin settings
- Add support to show all rules on one screen
- Bug fixing
Version 1.1.7 29th Dec 2016
- Updated the description of field to clarify how to replace with empty string
Version 1.1.6 4th Aug 2016
- Update licensing version and dashboard
Version 1.1.5 22th May 2016
- Update licensing version and dashboard
Version 1.1.4 28th April 2016
- Added the option to enable Search&Replace in CM Tooltip Glossary.
Version 1.1.3 20th March 2016
- Updated licensing api support.
Version 1.1.2 25th Feb 2016
- Added automatic updates from plugin dashboard
- Replaced plugin admin interface including license activation and user guide
Version 1.1.1 18th January 2016
- Bug fixing
Version 1.1.0 14th January 2016
- Added pagination and internal search within rules
- Bug fixing
- Changing the license version
Version 1.0.9 15th Dec 2015
- Added the option to search & replace in the WooCommerce attribute labels
- Small fixes in the licensing API
Version 1.0.8 20th Nov 2015
- Fixed the mb_stringtolower
- Fixed the bug with the link in the notice
- Added the Non-SSL option to licensing
- Removed the “AddOns” tab when not needed
Version 1.0.7 19th Nov 2015
- Fixed the problem with loading the Settings on the pages with a lot of posts/pages (over 10000)
- Ensured the WordPress 4.4 compatibility
- Small fix to the licensing package
Version 1.0.6 17th Sep 2015
- Add frontend control to activate, deactivate replace rules
- Added access control to frontend control for admin, logged-in users and visitors
Version 1.0.5 30th Aug 2015
- Fix few bugs causing search and replace script not to work as expected on custom post types
Version 1.0.4 30th July 2015
- Fixed A undefined notices
- Fixed adding exclusions for new replacements
- Added new export/import tab
- Export saves itself as export.json file
- Import saves selected file inside uploads directory
Version 1.0.3 03rd July 2015
- Fixed bug related to admin menu appearance and conflict with some other plugins