While there may be some very cool code related means of searching and replacing text in wordpress, I am not a programmer and I am not that patient. And MySQL is not where I like to play. A site we are working on changed their company name mid build. This is a local Palm Beach Florida business that is part of a national franchise. With over 100 uses of their name on two different sites I was not thrilled about the editing required. Since the wordpress community has been around a while and dealt with just about every issue possible when it comes to working with wordpress issues, I figured there was a good chance I could find a plugin for that.
I went to the admin panel-> Plugins->Add New and searched “text replace”. After a scan of the first page I saw a couple possibilities. I click on install to check compatibility and see what other functionality notes I can find. I prefer a plugin that is up to date with the current wordpress version and is recently updated. None of the available plugins met this criteria. Sometimes a lower functioning skill like find and replace, something that should be pretty compatible no matter what the version, will have a chance at still working. I backed up the site before activating any new plugins. Better safe that sorry right? The first two were a bust but the third plugin worked like a charm. “Search & Replace” was very simple to use and when I was done I removed it from the site. Easy, fast effective and a plugin I would recommend for the average user who runs into a need to search and replace text on anywhere on their wordpress site.
Search and Replace in WordPress
While there may be some very cool code related means of searching and replacing text in wordpress, I am not a programmer and I am not that patient. And MySQL is not where I like to play. A site we are working on changed their company name mid build. This is a local Palm Beach Florida business that is part of a national franchise. With over 100 uses of their name on two different sites I was not thrilled about the editing required. Since the wordpress community has been around a while and dealt with just about every issue possible when it comes to working with wordpress issues, I figured there was a good chance I could find a plugin for that.
I went to the admin panel-> Plugins->Add New and searched “text replace”. After a scan of the first page I saw a couple possibilities. I click on install to check compatibility and see what other functionality notes I can find. I prefer a plugin that is up to date with the current wordpress version and is recently updated. None of the available plugins met this criteria. Sometimes a lower functioning skill like find and replace, something that should be pretty compatible no matter what the version, will have a chance at still working. I backed up the site before activating any new plugins. Better safe that sorry right? The first two were a bust but the third plugin worked like a charm. “Search & Replace” was very simple to use and when I was done I removed it from the site. Easy, fast effective and a plugin I would recommend for the average user who runs into a need to search and replace text on anywhere on their wordpress site.
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