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.

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.

An absolute must-have for people migrating huge data and having to correct loads of broken links. Does for free, with a quite powerful interface, what others promise to provide if you pay first.

For a plugin called SEARCH REGEX, maybe have REGEX enabled by default? For a title feature to be hidden in dropdown is a bit annoying. If someone is installing this, they clearly looked for REGEX eh?
I'd suggest keeping REGEX enable/disable a separate setting that is always visible.

I've tried lots of plugins like this, and this is the better by far. Thank you!

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 is by far the best plugin I've used for DB search. Way better than other PRO versions even.