Search Regex

What the author says it does

Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and other data sources. These go beyond the standard searching capabilities, and allow you to search and replace almost any data stored on your site. In addition to simple searches you have the full power of PHP’s regular expressions at your disposal.

You can use this to do things like:

– Help migrate a site from one domain to another

– Update URLs in links and images

– Perform site-wide changes

Search filters can be created to match any column of any WordPress table. For example:

– Find all posts in a category

– Find all post meta data without a post

– Find all posts in a date range

Search Regex handles small and large sites.

Search Regex has been tested with PHP from 7.4 to 8.4.

What can I search?

You can search:

– Posts

– Pages

– Any custom post type

– Comments (including spam)

– Users

– Meta data

– WordPress options

Full regular expression support is provided, and you can capture data and use it in the replacement.

Actions

A variety of actions can be performed on matching results:

– Modify and replace the result

– Delete the result

– Export to CSV and SQL

– Perform custom PHP action

Modify and Replace Data

Results can be individually modified by clicking on the item to change, and using the popup modifier.

The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.

Latest changelog entry

3.5.1 – October 6th 2026

• Fix security issue with serialized user meta (found by R3D)
• Don’t allow serialized data to be saved (partial serialized support is removed)
• Improve shortcode handling
• Fix bug replacing shortcodes in some situations