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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
Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions
Search and replace text, images, URLs, footer credits, code blocks or jQuery-Ajax content in real time or in Database, easy user-interface
- Active installs
- 40,000+
- #827 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 1.5M
- 1,451,499
- Downloads, 30 days
- 11.9K
- 2.1K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5
- 171 reviews
- Last updated
- 5 days ago
- Oct 26, 2026
- Version
- 2.0.1
- 88 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 26, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.2 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.2 or newer |
| First published | November 20, 2015 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
4.6 / 5 from 171 reviews
| 5 stars | 147 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 6 |
| 3 stars | 2 |
| 2 stars | 4 |
| 1 star | 12 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Smart Search, Replace & Media Tool (with AI) for WordPress
Better Find and Replace lets you easily search and replace text, HTML, links and media across your entire WordPress site — no coding needed. Perfect for database cleanup, content updates or post-migration edits.
Replace text or media in bulk with full support for serialized data, custom tables and dry-run previews. AI-powered suggestions help you rewrite or improve content instantly, making your edits smarter and faster.
Easily find and replace images using drag-and-drop and auto-regenerate thumbnails. You can also update or add alt text, captions and metadata with the suggestion of AI for better SEO.
Want to change content without editing your database? Use real-time masking to update text, links or HTML before the page loads — instantly and safely.
Built for developers, agencies and site owners, individual ( everyone ) who want fast, accurate control over their content management system — all in one clean, intuitive interface.
Key Features
- Site Health Dashboard – One score and one issue count for your whole site — broken links, missing media, 404s and more — with an activity log of every change the plugin has made.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Latest changelog entry
- Updated compatibility with the latest WordPress version.
- Improved site health and broken link detection.
- Enhanced AI-powered URL replacement suggestions.
- Improved redirects and content replacement workflows.
- Minor fixes and performance improvements.
Screenshots
Add Find Rule - Plain Text 
Add Find Rule - RegEx 
Add Find Rule - jQuery / Ajax Text 
List of All Masking Rules
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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.