#40 by installs
Better Search Replace
A simple plugin to update URLs or other text in a database.
- Installs
- 1+ million
- Rating
- 4.3 (546)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
Go Live Update Urls
Change the domain on your site with one click.
- Active installs
- 90,000+
- #477 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 2.4M
- 2,426,832
- Downloads, 30 days
- 39.1K
- 26.4K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5
- 59 reviews
- Last updated
- 4 days ago
- Oct 27, 2026
- Version
- 7.1.1
- 98 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 27, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.2.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4.0 or newer |
| First published | October 9, 2011 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
4.5 / 5 from 59 reviews
| 5 stars | 48 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 4 |
| 3 stars | 0 |
| 2 stars | 2 |
| 1 star | 5 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Change the domain on your site with one click.
Goes through entire site and replaces all instances of an old URL with a new one. Used most often when changing the domain of your site.
Automatically detects and handles special domain circumstances to give you an accurate update every time without side effects.
Developed and supported by OnPoint Plugins.
Features
- Database table by table selection.
- Updates serialized data in core tables.
- Updates encoded URL.
- Easy to use admin page – which may be found under Tools.
- Works on both multisite and single site installs.
Updates Entire Site Including
- Posts
- Pages
- Image URLs
- Excerpts
- Post meta data
- Custom post types
- Widgets and widget data
- Options and settings
- And much more
Domain Update Process
Full step-by-step instructions for a changing a site’s domain may be found here.
Included Language Translations
- English (en_US).
- French (fr_FR).
- German (de_DE).
- Spanish (es_ES).
Developers
Developer docs may be found here.
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting information may be found here.
Contribute
Send pull requests via the Github Repo
Go PRO
Our PRO version brings additional functionality to this plugin. Check out the demo to see if the PRO version is useful for you.
- Updates database tables created by plugins.
- Database tables are organized into simple intuitive sections.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Where do you use this plugin?
Under the Tools menu in the dashboard there will be a “Go Live” link.
Why does updating the domain break some plugins?
Some plugins will store the serialized or JSON data in the database which does not allow for easy updating of the data. You may un-check tables used by such plugins and then update the urls manually for those plugins. Currently, the options, postmeta, usermeta, commentmeta, blogmeta, and sitemeta tables are serialization safe.
How do I know which tables I should not update?
Most tables will be just fine to update. This plugin will tell you which tables not to update.
If you wish to try to update tables mentioned as “not safe” anyway, you may:
1. Make a backup of your database.
2. Run the update with all tables checked.
If you run into trouble:
1. Restore your database.
2. Un-check tables in sections.
3. Re-run this until you find the culprit.
Latest changelog entry
- Added support for updating C: classes in serialized data.
- Tested to WordPress 7.1.3.
Screenshots
Tools page. The list of tables will change depending on your database structure. 
Successfully updated urls. 
Update prevented due to incomplete data entered.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.