Real-Time Find and Replace Plug-in Review

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1. gestroud (4 comments.) says:

   1/16/2010 at 11:23 pm

   I’ve been using Frank Bültge’s Search and Replace plugin for a while now. It allows you to specify what tables you want to search, rather than a global search and replace. It’s perfect if I only want to replace instances of a particular text in a post’s content, but not the title or the excerpt, for example.

   Works well with WP 2.9.1.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....d-replace/
2. Carl @ HCW (2 comments.) says:

   1/17/2010 at 1:13 am

   This is great! I was wondering how I was going to get rid of the youtube embedding plugin, and replace it with proper embed code. I think this should do it!
3. Lars Tong Strömberg (14 comments.) says:

   1/17/2010 at 6:49 am

   Sounds like a very useful plugin as changes can be done on the fly. Here´s a related plugin for search and replace that I was aware of that might be worth looking into:

   http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/search-regex

   Haven´t tried it myself though.
4. John Zemler (2 comments.) says:

   1/17/2010 at 8:21 am

   Hi, Just a note to say when I click on the Agent Press ad that it comes up as a broken link.

   Otherwise, thank you for posting the information on WordPress that you do.

   Semper Pax, Dr. Z
5. redwall_hp (40 comments.) says:

   1/17/2010 at 5:34 pm

   Sounds like a waste of resources to me. Why didn’t you just back up your DB and then run an SQL query to replace every instance of [theshortcode] with [thenewshortcode]? Simple, effective, and cleaner.
   • Artem Russakovskii (14 comments.) says:

     1/18/2010 at 5:19 pm

     It’s not a very simple SQL query to replace a substring, is it? Especially if you want to do regex searching. I actually had to write a Perl script to do this instead.

     But yeah, I agree with you – why would anyone want to add additional processing *every* time the page is loaded (or cache if it’s cached) for something that can be done once?
     • redwall_hp (40 comments.) says:

       1/18/2010 at 9:45 pm

       Okay, maybe it’s not super simple, but I still maintain that changing it on page load is…less than elegant.
6. gerrica101 says:

   1/18/2010 at 6:46 am

   This article is a real benefit for me and the scores of other WordPress users who aren’t familiar or comfortable with tinkering around with our databases. Not everyone knows how to run SQL queries or has the time to learn. Some of us don’t have time to learn. I know I don’t. I prefer the plugin method. Simple, effective and cleaner.

   xoxo
   • Artem Russakovskii (14 comments.) says:

     1/18/2010 at 5:20 pm

     I’d prefer to see a plugin that would make these changes permanent but, of course, allow previews and restoring in case something gets messed up.
     • redwall_hp (40 comments.) says:

       1/18/2010 at 9:43 pm

       *Makes note for future*
7. Michael (19 comments.) says:

   1/25/2010 at 12:10 pm

   I’m also a big fan of Frank B?ltge’s Search & Replace plugin. It helped me correct hundreds of words that got mangled when I moved my blog to a new host, owing to an error in the MySQL character set. (UTF8)
   You change the text once and it stays changed.
8. Reuben Oyeyele (1 comments.) says:

   11/4/2011 at 8:03 am

   In fact I was looking for another plugin and bumped into this. After reading your post I think I will give it a try. First I will test it on my localhost.

   Thanks.

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