Not working at all

The plugin works also with WP 4.2, no known errors. Maybe you have more inputs to retrace the problem.

Hello!

I have tried it on several different WordPress sites, but all get the same error, telling me that it can not find the words I search for in the database. I have tried with all different WordPress themes and I have tried deactivating all plugins except from Search and Replace, but nothing seems to help.

It’s not working for me either, and I’ve tested this on 4 separate installations for 4.2+. Does it have anything to do with WordPress converting databases to utf8mb4 in 4.2? Though utf8mb4 should be 100% backwards compatible with utf8…

With debug mode on, after a search, WordPress would throw many WordPress database error: [COLLATION 'utf8_bin' is not valid for CHARACTER SET 'utf8mb4'], and display no results.

We’re also having the problem where it shows no results for all of our searches, even when we search for the domain of the site specifically.

Same here. It is not working anymore in WP 4.2.2. No matter what I search for (I can even search for the Domain name itself) nothing is found:

“Sorry, https://www.mydomain.com kann in dieser Datenbank nicht gefunden werden.(xxxxxxxxx)!”

I see an error like

WordPress database error COLLATION 'utf8_bin' is not valid for CHARACTER SET 'utf8mb4' for query SELECT * FROM wp_commentmeta WHEREmeta_idlike

and no results returned on my database.

WordPress have change the database, since version 4.2.
But now I have change the collate check in the new version 1.7.1 for case sensitive search in the database, that it will now work also with WP version 4.2 and higher.

Thanks Frank, appreciate it!

I am having the same issue, installed plugin, and it is not finding anything I search for including chunks of text I copy from an existing page, and paste into the search field.

I am running WordPress 4.2.2

GulDam

Never mind… it’s only the top Global section that Search Does not work. Going down down and selecting content checkbox and search and replacing works… just don’t leave the replace field blank. Doh

Based on the sql query that shows up it looks like the global search is only looking at the users table. At least for us that was it.

Hi Frank, do you know when this bug might be fixed?

As others have commented, for some reason now the top Global Search & Replace function is clearly only searching the users table…

Here is the SQL it shows:

SELECT * FROM pdt_users WHERE ID like ‘%foobar%’ …

Sorry, foobar is not found in this database!

Thanks!

I’m seeing exactly the same result. The “Global Search and Replace” is only searching in the users table.

I love this plugin and have used it on all my sites, so I hope this gets corrected soon.

Thanks.