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Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and other data.
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Search Regex is a WordPress plugin by John Godley, first published on WordPress.org in 2007. It has 100,000+ active installations and 2,803,857 downloads in total, and ranks #288 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Its directory rank held steady over the past week. Users rate it 4.7 out of 5 across 101 reviews. Version 3.5.1 was released 17 days ago, so the plugin is actively maintained. It is tested up to WordPress 7.1.3 and requires WordPress 6.6 and PHP 7.4 or later. In the last two months, 2 of 3 support threads were marked resolved (67%). It is listed under database, regex, regular expression, replace and search. Plugins with a similar focus include Better Find and Replace, Search & Replace Everything by WPCode and Search & Replace.
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