Search and Replace

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Directory rank vs rivals

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How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 81% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ gokturk

   3.7y ago

   Dont working plugin

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2. ★★★★★ HDPro

   4.4y ago

   This claimed it changed 50 things but I don’t see anything different

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3. ★★★★★ exciteforlife

   4.5y ago

   my website was sending https to http links. I used this plugin to serah and replace these. There are no instructions anywhere on how to use it. I contacted their support and noone ever came back to me. I tried to do and it and it took literally hours then I realised it had replaced all http: with httpsssssssss: It has taken me ages again to change this and had to pay for someone to fix. maybe I was doing it wrong but how would you know when there are no instructions

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4. ★★★★★ patricksplace

   4.5y ago

   My web host migrated multiple sites to a different server — and apparently, a UTF encoding setting wasn’t correct. The result was that lots of special characters — —Â, “ and …, among others — suddenly showed up all over my site. My website goes back 18 years, so going back post by post wasn’t a realistic option. And leaving that content strewn with unreadable garbage wasn’t realistic, either. I found this plugin, then determined what character each individual string of random characters was SUPPOSED to be. One by one, I replaced each string with the correct character. It took about two minutes to correct errors across literally thousands of posts. It couldn’t have been simpler.

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5. ★★★★★ Susan Pearson

   4.8y ago

   I installed this plugin as it was recommended to update the urls of images when importing them from one blog to another during an integration process. Unfortunately, after running it I was told 0 rows had been updated so it did nothing at all. It may be possible that only the Pro version works, if that is the case why offer a free version that does nothing, it is basically just an advert.

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6. ★★★★★ imanolo

   5.0y ago

   Very useful and easy to use plugin!

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7. ★★★★★ hobos

   5.2y ago

   The plugin works perfectly in the current version of WordPress. I easily changed the image links when moving the site to a new domain.

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8. ★★★★★ sonikblast

   5.4y ago

   I used 10 other and didn’t do the job but THIS ONE is perfect

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. 2016-03-10 Version 1.1 Adding excerpt in modified fields. 1.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.6.2

Translated into 2 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

No tier crossings observed yet.

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Post Type Switcher 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Search Regex 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Search & Replace 100K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags C
• String locator 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags C
• Real-Time Find and Replace 70K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A

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Search and Replace: 10K+ active installs, 3.1★ (23 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/search-replace