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Search & Replace

Description

With Search & Replace you can search for everything and replace this with everything but before you do this you can easily create a simple database backup and restore it.

For avoiding problem please keep in mind that this plugin search and replace strictly what is specified in “Replace With”.
Common error example:
Search For: http://web.com/wordpress/
Replace With: http://neuweb.com/wordpress
The url become something like: http://neuweb.com/wordpresscontent/…

Correct “Replace with”:
Search For: http://web.com/wordpress/
Replace With: http://neuweb.com/wordpress/
The url become something like: http://neuweb.com/wordpress/content/…

We have implemented special features!

The first one is “Replace a Domain / URL” that is useful for a quick and simple transfer or a migration of a WordPress site.
The second feature is full support for serialized data. There are a lot more features – check them out! 🙂

Our goal with this plugin is to give you a good solution for manipulating your data for both Developers and Users of WordPress.

Note: This plugin requires PHP 5.6 or higher to be activated.

Checkout our GitHub Repository

Features

  • Search & replace data in your WordPress database
  • Change domain/URL of WordPress installation
  • Handle serialized data
  • Choose dry run or download SQL file
  • Change table prefix
  • Backup & restore your database
  • WordPress Multisite support
  • Localized and ready for your own language

Crafted by WP Media

Made by WP Media.

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Screenshots

  • Search and Replace
  • Replace Domain/URL
  • Restore Database
  • Backup Database
  • Result screen after search or search and replace

Installation

Requirements

  • WordPress 4.0 (Single and Multisite)
  • PHP 5.6, newer PHP versions will work faster.

Reviews

Çile 19, 2024 2 replies
Can't understand why anyone would give the plugin less than 5 stars. Does exactly what it is designed for and does it well. Use with caution and always do a dry run first. Inspect the provided log and enjoy 🙂 Thanks to author for sharing with the community.
Cotmeh 15, 2023
The simplest better functional plugin I ever used. Does exactly what is needed. You can:• choose the table• do a dry run• review the changes• download the result as sql then applying the modifications• apply the modifications instantly
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Contributors & Developers

“Search & Replace” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Search & Replace” has been translated into 16 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

3.2.1 (2019-06-06)

  • Update readme for tested up WP versions
  • Add check for replace function to get more solid replace for custom tables. #132
  • Fix small typos
  • Fix Throwable because we set as minimum php 5.6

3.2.0 (2019-01-17)

  • Added CSV format alternative for search/replace #82.
  • Improve code structure, preparation for more solid UnitTests.
  • Improve Modal Table UI.
  • Added Multiline searching #119.
  • Fix several issues to run always with php 5.6 to 7.2.

v3.1.2 (2016-12-31)

  • hotfix: prevent declaration error with Requisite

v3.1.1 (2016-12-24)

  • Refactor Plugin loading #67
  • Display error notice is the search value the current domain and save changes to Database selected

v3.1.0 (2016-02-07)

  • Improve codquality
  • Prepared for localization (GlotPress)
  • Prevent doing idle prozesses if search & replace pattern the same
  • Implement better BigData handling.
  • Implement better tab and adminpage handling #33
  • Prepare the Plugin for localization, change Text-Domain.#47
  • Remove difference in wordings for buttons between descriptions.#46

v3.0.1 (2016-02-09)

  • Add support for Searchpattern with quotes. #40
  • Basic travis support for travis was added. #38
  • Fix Unittest #37

v3.0.0 (2016-01-29)

  • Refactor the plugin, new requirements, goal and result.
  • Thanks to Sven Hinse for help to maintain the plugin
  • Changeable table prefix on replace site URL tab enhancement
  • Implement database backup & import tab
  • Implement dry Run: Keep for search and replace
  • Prevent self destroy
  • Multisite basic support – show only tables of current site
  • Add special tab for replace the URL
  • Supports serialized data
  • Refactor the whole codebase

v2.7.1 (2015-05-28)

  • Fix for changes on database collate since WordPress version 4.2
  • Fix to reduce backslashes in search and replace string

v2.7.0 (2014-09-14)

  • Exclude serialized data from replace function (maybe we reduce the support)
  • Add hint, if is serialized data on the result table
  • Fix to see also the result case sensitive

v2.6.6 (09/05/2014)

  • Thanks to Ron Guerin for help to maintain the plugin
  • Fix to use $wpdb object for all database access
  • Fix inability to search and replace quoted strings
  • Output changes to clarify when searching vs. searching and replacing
  • Some changes to English strings and string identifiers

v2.6.5

  • Fix for change User-ID, add table comments

v2.6.4

  • Fix capability check, if the constant DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT is defined

v2.6.3 (10/10/2011)

  • filter for return values, html-filter
  • add belarussian language
  • add romanian language files

v2.6.2 (09/11/2011)

  • change right object for use the plugin also on WP smaller 3.0, include 2.9
  • add function search and replace in all tables of the database – special care!

v2.6.1 (01/25/2011)

  • Feature: Add Signups-Table for WP MU
  • Maintenance: check for tables, PHP Warning fix

v2.6.0 (01/03/2011)

  • Feature: add an new search for find strings (maybe a new way for search strings)
  • Maintenance: small changes on source

v2.5.1 (07/07/2010)

  • small changes for use in WP 3.0
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