Search Regex
Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and other data.
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Main benefits
Powerful search and replace
Full regular expression support
Modify and replace data
Export to CSV and SQL
Perform custom PHP actions
About this plugin
Categories: Utilities
Version: 3.0.8
Last updated: 01-01-2024
WordPress version: 6.0
Tested up to: 6.4.5
PHP version required: 5.6
Languages: Español, Italiano [+4]
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Overview
Search Regex is a robust WordPress plugin designed to enhance the standard search and replace functionality for posts, pages, custom post types, and various data sources within a WordPress site. Leveraging the extensive power of PHP’s regular expressions, it allows users to perform complex search and replace operations, such as migrating a site from one domain to another or updating URLs in links and images. The plugin enables the creation of search filters for any WordPress table column and supports searches in posts, pages, comments, users, meta data, and other WordPress options. Users can modify and replace data, delete results, export data to CSV or SQL, and execute custom PHP actions. Additionally, bulk modifications, dynamic data insertion using custom shortcodes, and transforming existing data are possible, making it ideal for tasks like deleting specific comments or adding categories to posts. Full documentation and support are available through the plugin’s GitHub and translation project pages.
Advanced Search and Replace
- Utilizes PHP’s regular expressions for powerful search and replace capabilities.
- Allows searching and replacing almost any data stored on your site.
- Supports site migration, URL updates, and site-wide changes.
Comprehensive Search Scope
- Can search posts, pages, custom post types, comments, users, meta data, and WordPress options.
- Supports searching within supported plugins like Redirection.
- Allows creation of search filters to match any column of any WordPress table.
Flexible Actions on Results
- Modify, replace, delete, or export matching results.
- Perform custom PHP actions on matching results.
- Supports bulk modifications and individual result modifications.
Custom Shortcodes and Data Transformation
- Supports custom shortcodes for dynamic data inclusion.
- Allows adding current date and time in any format to content.
- Enables data transformation like converting case or changing underscores to dashes.
Rating and reviews
carlosmtnez
12 May, 2024
I’ve tried lots of plugins like this, and this is the better by far. Thank you!
argaliano15
10 Dec, 2023
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.
This topic was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by argaliano15.
This topic was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by argaliano15.
Ross
15 Nov, 2023
This is by far the best plugin I’ve used for DB search. Way better than other PRO versions even.
poi3
22 Jul, 2023
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.
salvador123
23 Apr, 2023
I liked it a lot.