Search Regex

This plugin does a great job when you just want to find and replace text across your site. The interface is clear, the regex support works well, and the preview feature is very useful.

However, the “Delete Matches” action is misleading—and potentially disastrous. I expected it to remove only the matched text, but it actually deletes the entire record (and even associated attachments) whenever it finds a match. There’s no clear warning that you’ll lose whole posts and media files. Use with extreme caution, or stick to the replace functionality only.

Dear John,

you are so GODLEY!!

thank you for this wonderful super helpful plugin!

May I buy you a ticket to Disneyland?? 😉

Incredibly powerful search tool for your dashboard, especially useful if, for example, you’ve moved to a new server (or a new site structure), or someone’s changed their name, or any other reason you might need to update a lot of things at once in the same way. Risky too – make sure you preview any replacements first!

Works perfectly. For those having issues, you need to proceed with regex with caution (always backup first), as the plugin notes.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Alex.

Why on earth does the entire post get deleted when I’m only trying to replace a string? While attempting to delete specific keywords across multiple posts using the ‘Delete Matches’ button, the entire posts containing those keywords were deleted. There was no warning, and the posts didn’t even move to the trash. This tool is absolutely terrible.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by tatsujin2024.