Search Regex

An absolute must-have for people migrating huge data and having to correct loads of broken links. Does for free, with a quite powerful interface, what others promise to provide if you pay first.

For a plugin called SEARCH REGEX, maybe have REGEX enabled by default? For a title feature to be hidden in dropdown is a bit annoying. If someone is installing this, they clearly looked for REGEX eh?
I'd suggest keeping REGEX enable/disable a separate setting that is always visible.

I've tried lots of plugins like this, and this is the better by far. Thank you!

This is one of the worst plugins I have ever seen. It loves to silently delete your posts. All you have to do is touch that "Delete" link that spends most of its time invisible, hiding 10 pixels from the "View" link, and POOF! your post is gone. Forever. Not in the trash, not made private or draft, no, it is gone right out of the database table like it never existed. There is no warning, no confirmation, nothing. In fact, it happens so fast you will probably miss it. Much later, you will wonder what happened to all your posts - now you know.

I finally had to hack the javascript and disable the delete function to make the plugin safe enough to use at all. But even after that, I found it had gotten me a second time, and I'm afraid I just don't know how many more posts this plugin has eaten. There is no record, they are just gone. I finally disabled most of the user interface, as no part of it is safe - you can end up doing a lot of damage without even realizing it. Most of that is irrelevant junk anyway - why should a search-and-replace have built-in edit and delete functions anyway?

This plugin actually does most of what it advertises, and pretty well, but if you are going to use it, be extremely careful. The user interface is generally clunky, vague and unhelpful, and you are left wondering what any operation might do. At one point, it deleted my entire database instead of replacing a string as it seemed to advertise. No warning or confirmation, just deleted everything. Luckily, by then I was extremely suspicious and made a fresh backup first. Sometimes match means a few characters, sometimes it means the entire post, and sometimes it means the entire database. You get to find out the fun way. This plugin is a complete boobytrap.

This is by far the best plugin I've used for DB search. Way better than other PRO versions even.

I've been looking for this plugin for the past 10 years, gosh. What an incredible "little" plugin: search, bam, the pages where a given word/file is located at. That's it, super fast.

I liked it a lot.

Saved us hours where another plugin would give up.

Of curse it's risky to use it [especially if you use it wrong], so always make a DB backup first, just as it says!

Thank you very much.

I installed this plugin to do regex replacements. However, it can barely find ANYTHING even on basic searches. For example I used the search phrase:

rel="noopener" target="_blank"

That returned 96 results on the plugin search.

When I went to my posts, it returned 5,559 results.

When I ran that search on the Better Search Replace plugin, I got 279 results. Now sadly the Better Search Replace plugin flat out lies when it says it has regex. It absolutely does not.

There are TONS of and TONS of posts this plugin is missing which it should be matching. Completely unreliable. I even did direct database checks and deactivated all caching & security plugins. This plugin just can't do anything.