Good plugin with cautions

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

• This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by joygras.