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.

3.4.1 - February 28th 2026

• Fix problem with export data

3.4 - February 14th 2026

• Include term description in searches

3.3.1 - January 16th 2026

• Fix replace all with regex
• Fix presets on page load
• Fix crash when adding a modification
• Fix missing source param from column context
• Add browser extension error detection
• Add mid-update cache clearing detection

3.3.0 - January 11th 2026

• Add a simple/advanced mode toggle
• Add delete confirmation dialog
• Improve case-sensitive search to properly handle emojis and multi-byte characters
• Improved client code
• Use PHP autoloading for better performance
• Bump minimum PHP to 7.4

3.2 - December 22nd 2025

• Add WP CLI functions
• Variety of small fixes and improvements
• Update for WordPress 6.9
• Bump PHP minimum to 7.2

3.1.2 - December 29th 2024

• Fix crash when loading from a preset with an 'includes any'

3.1.1 - November 23rd 2024

• Update for WordPress 6.7

3.1.0 - August 8th 2024

• Update for latest WP
• Fix export of regular expression result
• Switch to WP core translations
• See changelog.txt for more details

The plugin is simple to install:

1. Download search-regex.zip
2. Unzip
3. Upload search-regex directory to your /wp-content/plugins directory
4. Go to the plugin management page and enable the plugin
5. Configure the options from the Tools/Search Regex page

You can find full details of installing a plugin on the plugin installation page.

Search options



Inline search and replace



Inline editor