Better Find and Replace

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About Better Find and Replace

Easily Search and replace text, code blocks, URLs, footer credits, jQuery / Ajax loaded text or anything in real-time. Search replace in database too.

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updated: 8 months ago
since: 9 years ago
author: CodeSolz

Description

The plugin provides an optimized search and replace function, providing an effective solution for efficient database management. Additionally, it incorporates a dynamic real-time word / text replacing feature.

The real-time option employs a advanced word masking technique to search and replace text, url ( anything ), leaving no trace behind. The find and replace process takes place before the website is
rendered in the browser and does not impact any other files or databases. With this ultimate solution, easily find and replace text, HTML code, media/image URLs, footer credits,
or any other content within your website without touching the database with the help of an easy-to-use user interface.

On the other hand, the permanent replace ensuring that any replaced text, URL etc is eliminated from your database permanently.
The plugin is equipped with powerful features that allow you to visualize the results of search and replace content within your database as well as permanently erasing it. It has the ability to
search within complex, serialized data structures and replace them with your own words, making it a powerful tool for managing website content for beginners and experienced users alike.
Additionally, it allows for the removal or un-setting of any element in serialized data by specifying its key.

Key Features

  • Easy to use and user-friendly options
  • Search and replace any text
  • Search and replace text loaded by Ajax / jQuery
  • Find and replace URLs
  • Search and replace images, attachment URLs etc..
  • Create word masking with find-replace over the whole website
  • Create find-replace temp rules without touching database.
  • Remove or change footer credit without touching database or HTML code
  • Replace anything in HTML code
  • Replace images in real-time rendering
  • Mask bad words posted in comments
  • Change different language’s content to your own language
  • RegEx supported
  • Replace any HTML tag or attribute
  • Lighting first find-replacement in Database table’s ( posts, postmeta, options )
  • Select a specific database table to replace content
  • Dry Run to see what will be change on Database
  • Search and replace Whole Words Only in Database
  • Ultimate powerful options for Search and replace Serialized Data in Database
  • Remove any item from Serialized Data in Database
  • Assign a specific role to manage this plugin for lower level of users
  • Real-time find and replace compatible with Gutenberg and other block / page builders

How to replace in DB?

  • First create a report by selecting dry run from bottom of the setting section
  • Report will appear in a modal window. You can check there which row / data is going to be replaced.
  • On the report’s, if you think the replacement is perfect which you want, then close the report window and un-check the dry run and click the Find & Replace button.
  • Attention: Please check the report and make sure which data you are going to replace. It’s very important because once you replace it in the Database you can’t un-done it.
  • important: So, before replacing in the database create a dry run report and see if it’s perfect or not. If it’s wrong change the find keyword then try again the same procedure until you see it’s perfect on the report.

Pro Features

  • Database Replacement Features:

    • Powerful search and replace in database
    • Ultimate solution for search & replace in serialized data & remove item
    • Automatic backup of the search and replacement data
    • Ultimate easy solution for restore data what you have replaced by mistake
    • Ability to check & replace each item separately which going to be replaced in the database
    • Bulk Replacement on report’s page, generate by dry run option
    • All tables in database
    • Search and replace Unicode Characters UTF-8 ( e.g: U+0026, REČA ) in Database
    • Additional filtering options in default / custom URLs
    • Filter new comments before inserting into Database
    • Filter new post before inserting into Database (Good for auto post generation website)
    • Special feature to search and replace in large table
  • Real-Time Rendering Features:

    • RegEx supported
    • Advance Regex – Powerful code blocks / multi-lines find and replace in real-time (masking) rendering
    • Advance Regex – Any (CSS / JS / HTML) code Block find and replacement in real-time (masking) rendering
    • Masking on Shortcodes
    • Advance filtering options :-
      • Case insensitive – search and replace case sensitive or insensitive
      • Whole Word – search and replace whole word
      • Unicode – search and replace Unicode Characters
      • Skip posts / page / custom taxonomies etc.. urls
      • Skip CSS – External, Internal, Inline
      • Skip JavaScript – External, Internal
      • Skip pages – if you don’t want to apply rules on any specific page
      • Skip posts – if you don’t want to apply rules on any specific posts
      • Bypass rule – keep texts unchanged on specific area with special pattern
      • Bypass rule – keep base links / urls ( post, pages, custom taxonomies etc..) unchanged where find word exists in that URL.

Advance Regex – Code blocks / multi lines find and replacement example – (Real-time Rendering)

Find code block and replace with your own or keep blank *replacement field to remove code block. Let consider the following CSS code block for replace. Put following
code block in find field*

<style media="screen">
    html { margin-top: 32px !important; }
    * html body { margin-top: 32px !important; }
    @media screen and ( max-width: 782px ) {
        html { margin-top: 46px !important; }
        * html body { margin-top: 46px !important; }
    }
</style>

Then put following code block in *Replace field to replace the above code block*

<style>
.site-title a{color: red;}
</style>

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➡️ Basic Documentation To Get Started

  • Setup Video Guide – How to install and setup search and replace rules

👉 Real-time search and replace

👉 Search and replace in Database

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