Text Replace
Replace text with other text. Handy for creating shortcuts to common, lengthy, or frequently changing text/HTML, or for smilies.
4.4(18 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 years agoAs of April 2026, Text Replace is a WordPress text plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 18 reviews. It has been downloaded 80K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2004. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 19% this week. Top alternative: String locator.
4.4/518 reviews
3.0K+active installs
80K+total downloads
22 yearssince 2004
Overview
This plugin allows you to easily define text or HTML that should be used in your posts in place of words or phrases that are actually present in the posts. This is a handy technique for creating shortcuts to common, lengthy, or frequently changing text/HTML, or for smilies.
Additional features of the plugin controlled both via settings and filters:
- Text replacement can be enabled for comments (it isn’t by default)
- Text replacement can be made case insensitive (it is case sensitive by default)
- Text replacement can be limited to doing only one replacement per term, per post (by default, all occurrences of a term are replaced)
- Text replacement can be handled early or late in WordPress’s text filtering process (it’s early by default)
- Text replacement can be expanded to affe…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Did not work
by webstpro·4 years ago
I could not get it to work with WordPress version: 5.8
100% free and useful
by Pete·5 years ago
100% free and useful
Excellent plugin
by danielepais·5 years ago
Does well what it says in the tin. Search / Replace….bingo! Well done.
Great plugin, works perfectly!
by pbewick·6 years ago
I manage WordPress updates for several clients and this plugin is my go-to when one of them does a rebrand. It works perfectly to update the name of the company sitewide without any trouble or manual changes. Love this!
Extremely useful
by hughbom·7 years ago
This plugin provided me with exactly what I need for a couple of my projects.
Download Trends
Today: 2Yesterday: 2This week: 35Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 5.7.15 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.0
92.2%
Other
7.8%
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Changelog
4.0 (2021-07-04)
Highlights:
This feature release adds a new setting to allow for user-specified filters to be processed, updates the plugin framework significantly, improves the plugin settings page, extracts developer docs from readme into new DEVELOPER-DOCS.md, restructures unit test files, notes compatibility through WP 5.7, and more.
Details:
- New: Add new setting “More filters” to allow for user-specified filters to be processed for text replacements
- New: Add
get_default_filters()to return the default core and/or third-party filters processed by the plugin - Change: Update plugin framework to 064
- 064:
- New: For checkbox settings, support a ‘more_help’ config option for defining help text to appear below checkbox and its label
…and 70 more changes
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