Better Find And Replace Pro

Search and update WordPress content

Better Find And Replace Pro searches and replaces text, HTML, links, URLs, and media across WordPress content and database tables. Choose tables or content areas to target, including custom tables. Database tools support serialized data, regular expressions, and whole-word matching. They can also focus replacements on post titles, content, or excerpts.

Real-time masking applies text, link, or HTML rules before a page loads without changing database content. Rules can cover content loaded with Ajax or jQuery, and filters can include or skip selected pages, posts, taxonomies, CSS, or JavaScript.

Preview a database replacement

Enter the search and replacement values, pick the tables or content areas, then choose Dry Run at the bottom of the options section and generate a report. Review the affected rows and data in the report. If the preview is correct, close it, uncheck Dry Run, and click Find & Replace to apply the change. Database replacements cannot be undone unless the Pro undo capability was installed before the replacement.

Media tools

Replace images with drag-and-drop uploads and regenerate thumbnails. Update or add alt text, captions, and metadata, with AI suggestions available for replacement text and media details. Safe Media Replacement keeps the original file until the new upload is committed and restores it automatically if the upload fails. Missing Media Detection finds content that points to files no longer on the server and lets you replace them.

Links, redirects, and 404s

Scan internal links in posts, pages, and public custom post types for broken destinations. Pro maintenance scans can also check external links, images, and embeds, group link failures by cause, and apply bulk fixes across occurrences. The Site Health Dashboard brings the website score, issue count, and activity log together. Scans can execute on a schedule or in the background.

Manage 301, 302, and 307 redirects, with regex and prefix matching and automatic redirects when a slug changes. Review hit counts and analytics, import or export redirects, and detect chains, loops, and self-redirects. The optional 404 Monitor records hits with referrers and counts while filtering bot traffic. Turn a recorded 404 into a redirect or find where the missing URL is still linked.

Replace + Redirect changes a URL across your content and makes the matching redirect in one previewed step, helping shared links continue to reach the intended destination.

AI-assisted revisions and maintenance

Safe Revision presents an AI suggestion as a full diff for selective approval, merging, publishing, or rollback. AI Content Refresher scans posts for outdated years, software versions, prices, and dead references. Review suggested rewrites and apply approved changes as reversible revisions. Maintenance Agent groups related problems, ranks them, prepares a plan for approval, runs the approved batch, and reports what changed.

Cloning and code inserts

Duplicate or clone posts, pages, and public custom post types as drafts. Bulk cloning works with metadata selection and is described as WooCommerce-aware and page-builder-aware. Code Inserts includes HTML, CSS, or JavaScript snippets to the header, start of the body, or footer without editing the theme. PHP is not executed. Long scans can run through Action Scheduler or WP-Cron so they do not hold up administration screens.

Set up a replacement

Install and activate Better Find And Replace Pro in WordPress, open its settings, and choose a task. For database changes, enter the search and replacement values, select the relevant tables or content areas, and run a Dry Run report. Review the affected data before disabling Dry Run and applying the replacement. Configure scans, redirects, media actions, or AI-assisted workflows in their corresponding settings areas.