Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions

Beschrijving

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 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 who want fast, accurate control over their content — all in one clean, intuitive interface.

Key Features

  • AI-Powered Suggestions – Use artificial intelligence (AI) to get smart replacement suggestions, enhancing accuracy and efficiency.
  • Easy to Use – Clean, user-friendly interface designed for effortless navigation and configuration.
  • Search and Replace Text – Find and replace any text across your site, whether in static or dynamic content.
  • Search and Replace Ajax/jQuery Content – Works seamlessly with content loaded via Ajax or jQuery on the frontend.
  • Find and Replace URLs – Quickly search and replace outdated or incorrect URLs throughout your website.
  • Replace Images and Attachment URLs – Replace image links and attachment URLs site-wide with precision.
  • Word Masking – Mask specific words site-wide using flexible find and replace rules.
  • Temporary Find-Replace Rules – Create live, non-permanent replacements without altering your database.
  • Edit Footer Credit – Remove or update footer text without modifying HTML or database content.
  • HTML Code Replacement – Replace anything within HTML code blocks, tags, or content.
  • Real-Time Image Replacement – Replace images instantly during page rendering for dynamic updates.
  • Comment Word Filtering – Automatically find and replace inappropriate words in user-submitted comments.
  • Language Replacement – Change words or phrases from one language to another across your site.
  • RegEx Supported – Use regular expressions for complex and pattern-based search and replace operations.
  • HTML Tag & Attribute Replacement – Locate and replace specific HTML tags or attributes throughout your content.
  • Lightning Fast Database Replace – High-speed search and replace operations in posts, postmeta, options, and more.
  • Table Selection – Choose specific database tables for targeted replacements.
  • Dry Run Preview – See a preview of all replacements before applying them to the database.
  • Whole Word Match – Replace only exact word matches in the database to avoid partial replacements.
  • Serialized Data Support – Safely search and replace serialized data without breaking structure or integrity.
  • Remove Serialized Items – Delete specific items from serialized arrays in the database.
  • Role-Based Access – Assign plugin management to specific user roles for better control.
  • Gutenberg and Page Builder Compatible – Fully supports real-time replacements inside block editors and builders.
  • Targeted DB Replacement – Refine search by limiting database replacements to post titles, content, or excerpts.

How to replace in DB?

  • Start by generating a report: Select the Dry Run option located at the bottom of the settings section.
  • Review the report: A modal window will appear, showing the specific rows and data that will be affected by the replacement.
  • Proceed if satisfied: If the preview looks accurate and matches what you intend to replace, simply close the report window, uncheck Dry Run, and click the Find & Replace button.
  • ⚠️ Attention: Please carefully review the dry run report before making any changes. Once replacements are applied to the database, they cannot be undone. The PRO version includes an undo feature, but it must be installed before performing the replacement.
  • ✅ Important Tip: Always run a dry report first to ensure your search term and replacement are correct. If anything looks off, adjust the keyword and repeat the process until the preview shows the desired results.

Pro Features

  • Database Replacement Features:

    • Powerful search and replace in database
    • Ultimate solution for search & replace in serialized data & remove item
    • Automatic backup of the search and replacement data
    • Ultimate easy solution for restore data what you have replaced by mistake
    • Ability to check & replace each item separately which going to be replaced in the database
    • Bulk Replacement on report’s page, generate by dry run option
    • All tables in database
    • Search and replace Unicode Characters UTF-8 ( e.g: U+0026, REČA ) in Database
    • Additional filtering options in default / custom URLs
    • Filter new comments before inserting into Database
    • Filter new post before inserting into Database (Good for auto post generation website)
    • Special feature to search and replace in large table
  • Real-Time Rendering Features:

    • RegEx supported
    • Advance Regex – Powerful code blocks / multi-lines find and replace in real-time (masking) rendering
    • Advance Regex – Any (CSS / JS / HTML) code Block find and replacement in real-time (masking) rendering
    • Masking on Shortcodes
    • Advance filtering options :-
      • Case insensitive – search and replace case sensitive or insensitive
      • Whole Word – search and replace whole word
      • Unicode – search and replace Unicode Characters
      • Skip posts / page / custom taxonomies etc.. urls
      • Skip CSS – External, Internal, Inline
      • Skip JavaScript – External, Internal
      • Skip pages – if you don’t want to apply rules on any specific page
      • Skip posts – if you don’t want to apply rules on any specific posts
      • Bypass rule – keep texts unchanged on specific area with special pattern
      • Bypass rule – keep base links / urls ( post, pages, custom taxonomies etc..) unchanged where find word exists in that URL.

Advance Regex – Code blocks / multi lines find and replacement example – (Real-time Rendering)

Find code block and replace with your own or keep blank *replacement field to remove code block. Let consider the following CSS code block for replace. Put following
code block in find field*

<style media="screen">
    html { margin-top: 32px !important; }
    * html body { margin-top: 32px !important; }
    @media screen and ( max-width: 782px ) {
        html { margin-top: 46px !important; }
        * html body { margin-top: 46px !important; }
    }
</style>

Then put following code block in *Replace field to replace the above code block*

<style>
.site-title a{color: red;}
</style>

Join the elite web professionals who enjoy Better Find And Replace Pro!

➡️ Basic Documentation To Get Started

  • Setup Video Guide – How to install and setup search and replace rules

👉 Real-time search and replace

👉 Search and replace in Database

Forum and Feature Request

For Quick Support, feature request and bug reporting

Visit our forum to share your experience or request features

As it’s open source, check our github development Status

Schermafbeeldingen

  • Add Find Rule – Plain Text
  • Add Find Rule – RegEx
  • Add Find Rule – jQuery / Ajax Text
  • List of All Masking Rules
  • URLs replacement in Database
  • Media replacement in Database
  • Dry run report
  • List of All Masking Rules with pro features
  • Media replacer
  • Media replacer
  • Media replacer

Installatie

  1. Upload the real-time-auto-find-and-replace folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  2. Activate Better find and replace through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Beoordelingen

9 mei 2025
When I used the plugin, it cleared all the CSS from the site and the theme’s default settings, which is what I do now. Will I need to buy the PRO version to be able to revert to the previous version? It’s absurd that this happens, it seems intentional to me in the sense that the plugin deleted all the styling on purpose so that I would then buy the paid version. If that’s the case, this plugin is a fraud and should be removed from the Wordpress site. I await urgent support from the company!
30 april 2025
Happy that I found this fantastic plugin because I had to replace some URL’s. The other similar plugin (you know, the one that searches instead of finds) is horrible, because in the free version you don’t see what you will change in the database tables (while the pro version is ridiculous expensive). Mass change of database tables without a preview? Never ever! But with this cool plugin here, even in the free version you will see what will be changed in what table BEFORE you have to pull the trigger. When ever I need database changes in the future, I will remember this great plugin and maybe even buy the pro version then. In the meantime many thanks for this plugin, keep up the great work!
6 maart 2025
Very helpful plugin for anyone moving WordPress site from local to online server. Thank you developers!
2 maart 2025
Webmasters, bloggers, website owners, I want to let you know that Better Find And Replace works like a charm. I’ve been using the plugin on my sites for about 3 weeks and it gets the job done. All I did was tell it what I wanted to remove and what I wanted to change it to and presto, it was done throughout my sites… over 500 pages and blog posts combined. If I had to do make those changes manually it would be “at it” for the next 3 to 5 months. Wow, what a time saver! I think you would love it. Tony P.
27 februari 2025
I was using another popular plugin and continuously ran into “max page size errors” when attempting to search and replace text in the database. This plugin had no issues, and did so at blazing speed!
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Changelog

Version: 1.7.2 ( May 16, 2025 )

  • New: ✨ AI-Powered Suggestions – Generate intelligent replacement suggestions using OpenAI.
  • New: AI suggestion – preview with Apply / Regenerate options.

Version: 1.7.1 ( April 22, 2025 )

  • Update: updated for the latest release

Version: 1.7.0 ( March 26, 2025 )

  • Update: Media replacer updated
  • Update: Video replacer – media replacer

Version: 1.6.9 ( January 30, 2025 )

  • Update: Small issue fixed

Version: 1.6.8 ( January 22, 2025 )

  • Update: Security patch updated

CHECK THE FULL CHANGELOG.