Rating: 5 stars
Works perfectly. For those having issues, you need to proceed with regex with caution (always backup first), as the plugin notes.
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Why on earth does the entire post get deleted when I’m only trying to replace a string? While attempting to delete specific keywords across multiple posts using the ‘Delete Matches’ button, the entire posts containing those keywords were deleted. There was no warning, and the posts didn’t even move to the trash. This tool is absolutely terrible.
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An absolute must-have for people migrating huge data and having to correct loads of broken links. Does for free, with a quite powerful interface, what others promise to provide if you pay first.
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For a plugin called SEARCH REGEX, maybe have REGEX enabled by default? For a title feature to be hidden in dropdown is a bit annoying. If someone is installing this, they clearly looked for REGEX eh?
I’d suggest keeping REGEX enable/disable a separate setting that is always visible.
Rating: 5 stars
I’ve tried lots of plugins like this, and this is the better by far. Thank you!
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This is one of the worst plugins I have ever seen. It loves to silently delete your posts. All you have to do is touch that “Delete” link that spends most of its time invisible, hiding 10 pixels from the “View” link, and POOF! your post is gone. Forever. Not in the trash, not made private or draft, no, it is gone right out of the database table like it never existed. There is no warning, no confirmation, nothing. In fact, it happens so fast you will probably miss it. Much later, you will wonder what happened to all your posts – now you know.
I finally had to hack the javascript and disable the delete function to make the plugin safe enough to use at all. But even after that, I found it had gotten me a second time, and I’m afraid I just don’t know how many more posts this plugin has eaten. There is no record, they are just gone. I finally disabled most of the user interface, as no part of it is safe – you can end up doing a lot of damage without even realizing it. Most of that is irrelevant junk anyway – why should a search-and-replace have built-in edit and delete functions anyway?
This plugin actually does most of what it advertises, and pretty well, but if you are going to use it, be extremely careful. The user interface is generally clunky, vague and unhelpful, and you are left wondering what any operation might do. At one point, it deleted my entire database instead of replacing a string as it seemed to advertise. No warning or confirmation, just deleted everything. Luckily, by then I was extremely suspicious and made a fresh backup first. Sometimes match means a few characters, sometimes it means the entire post, and sometimes it means the entire database. You get to find out the fun way. This plugin is a complete boobytrap.
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This is by far the best plugin I’ve used for DB search. Way better than other PRO versions even.
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I’ve been looking for this plugin for the past 10 years, gosh. What an incredible “little” plugin: search, bam, the pages where a given word/file is located at. That’s it, super fast.
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I liked it a lot.
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Saved us hours where another plugin would give up.
Of curse it’s risky to use it [especially if you use it wrong], so always make a DB backup first, just as it says!
Thank you very much.
Rating: 5 stars
I installed this plugin to do regex replacements. However, it can barely find ANYTHING even on basic searches. For example I used the search phrase:
rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”
That returned 96 results on the plugin search.
When I went to my posts, it returned 5,559 results.
When I ran that search on the Better Search Replace plugin, I got 279 results. Now sadly the Better Search Replace plugin flat out lies when it says it has regex. It absolutely does not.
There are TONS of and TONS of posts this plugin is missing which it should be matching. Completely unreliable. I even did direct database checks and deactivated all caching & security plugins. This plugin just can’t do anything.
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There are several DB replacement plugins. Search Regex is embarrassingly better than all the others, albeit more popular ones.
The problem is the name. Many users are kept away from the word “Regex”. It is true that it is a unique feature, but this advantage should be spent without making it seem suitable for too specific use. It should be more clear that Regex is just an option, and not even the default.
However, the description is very clear. Unfortunately it’s not enough, especially considering the repository’s search algorithm and the way users scan results.
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I am working on production and what I really like is that it is possible to create presets that are locked to “No Action”. This allows me to search without the risk of accidently replacing the content.
It could be safer still.
FEATURE REQUEST: The search results return a column called “Matched Content”. When hovering over a cell in this column a menu appears that contains “Delete database row”.
Please allow the creation of Presets that prevent this option being shown. The benefit of this is that Searches would then be intrinsically safe.
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This is a very cool plugin. I was able to use it to remove the date slug from content links (same domain) without breaking the date slug of the media files. Thousand thanks to the developer!
At the support tab you can find my setting for this task under the topic:
“How to remove date slug from content links on same domain”
What I also like a lot is the test search, which shows exactly what changes… with highlighting of the text to be replaced.
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Oops… I broke my website
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Now, with the support for searching and replacing inside serialized data, it is without the competition in search & replace plugins. You can do anything with this plugin.
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That’s it
It was an awesome plugin, never failed, but after 2 years of using it without any problem, this last version became so complicated, that I have no clue what I’m doing, so instead of breaking my site, I removed it.
I spend hours trying to understand these peculiar settings on this version.
Pitty.
Why the hell did you make things so confusing?
Rating: 5 stars
After updating to PHP 8.0 it will not work. It causes a fatal error. Too bad, I was just learning to use it.
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It saves me a lot of time.
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I searched and replaced “”, the soft hypen with a more wp-suitable soft hyphen and “Search Regex” did it in a few minutes of installing it and replacing my searched out text snippets. Fantastic! It could be a little simpler in the GUI for non regexers, but I like it.
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Thank you for this Search tool! Just donated $20 as it was well worth my time.
Had to replace over 700 special URLs on my client’s website posts and with regular expression support, it shaved hours off the time it would’ve taken to update those manually. Keep up the good work!
Rating: 5 stars
I really appreciate this plugin.
I’m not sure why this is not the top of the suggestion list.
kudos for making it free.
The least I could do was give a great rating.
I’m a monk and don’t touch money.
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Rating: 5 stars
I have tried many other search & replace plugins, this one is by far the best. Thanks!
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WP 5.7
PHP 7.4.16
MySQL 10.3.28-MariaDB
Once I got it to work, this plugin did a smooth and swift job of regex searches and deletes, on around 450 posts. Please note I was taking a bit of a chance because it’s not tested with WP 5.7, but the only problem I found was that if I tried to save a regex as a preset, it failed with a DB error and, worse, it didn’t find any matches after that unless I left it alone for a few hours and then reloaded the page. Naturally I tested my searches on a staging clone of my site first.
It’s *VERY* important to note that this plugin uses PHP regex syntax, which isn’t exactly the same as BASH. Using BASH regex syntax didn’t work.
Handy tip: use the “.{99999}” syntax as much as possible, it’s faster than more precise matching.
Final note: be patient once you’ve checked your search and kicked off the replace / delete. It can be a good few seconds before it reports anything, and the progress meter proceeds in stages with pauses once it does.
And to the dev(s): thanks for a great piece of work! Please bring it up to speed with WP 5.7?
Best,
Joy
Rating: 5 stars
I had a lot of old content to remove inside the posts such as manually inserted ad code, various shortcodes, and forms. It saved me hours of work with its find a remove function.
Thanks!
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This plugin lets you search and replace site wide content and post easily saving you a lot of time hunting down the content page after page. It works out of the box with an effective interface.
Thank you for the work.
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Great work! Got to spend some time on regex setup, but it helped to save a lot of my time…10k internal links replaced in half an hour. It could take up to one day with using other search and replace plugins which don’t allow using regular extensions.
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You will get no warnings if you use this plugin to muck with serialized data, and your site WILL BREAK.
Support for serialized data would be sweet!
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This module is useful because it has a friendly interface. I no longer need to use SQL.
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I should give it 10 stars if I could.
Works perfectly on subfolders multisite, it saved me from dozens of working hours.
I wish I found it last night when I spent 10 hours checking post by post…
It is really an excellent plugin!