A simple plugin to install find and replace function button in WordPress editor on both visual TinyMCE and text mode.
As of April 2026, Find And Replace Text is a WordPress find plugin with 500 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: String locator.
Find And Replace Text plugin allows you to install a find & replace button to your WordPress Editor.
It supports batch finding and replacing string when you edit your posts either in TinyMCE visual or text mode.
Please note the plugin in TinyMCE visual mode also find and replace string in raw file. Which means that you should make sure there are not HTML tag to find and replace.
For example, if you find and replace “href” to “something else” in Visual mode. The plugin also change every “href” to “something else” if the HTML codes have links with “href” even you can not see the “href” string on the visual mode screen.
So please make sure that you are not replacing HTML tags in Visual mode. Or you can start from Te…
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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