Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions

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 find and 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, individual ( everyone ) who want fast, accurate control over their content management system — all in one clean, intuitive interface.

Key Features

• Site Health Dashboard – One score and one issue count for your whole site — broken links, missing media, 404s and more — with an activity log of every change the plugin has made.
• Broken Link Checker – Finds broken internal links in posts, pages and public custom post types, showing where each appears, its link text and how often it is used. Links are checked against your database, never by hammering your own site with requests.
• Redirect Manager – Create and manage 301 redirects with on/off switches, hit counts, and automatic loop and self-redirect prevention.
• 404 Monitor – Optional logging of every “page not found” hit with referrer and hit count, bot traffic filtered out, and one click to turn a 404 into a redirect or find where the missing URL is still linked.
• Replace + Redirect – Change a URL everywhere in your content and create the matching redirect in a single previewed step, so links people already shared keep working.
• Missing Media Detection – Spots content pointing at images and files that no longer exist on the server, and lets you replace them.
• Duplicate & Clone Content – “Duplicate” and “Clone & Edit” actions on posts, pages and public custom post types, always created as a draft.
• Code Inserts – Add header, body-start and footer snippets (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) without editing your theme. PHP is never executed.
• Safe Media Replacement – Replacing a file keeps the original until the new upload has fully committed, and restores it automatically if anything goes wrong.
• Background Scanning – Long scans run in the background via Action Scheduler or WP-Cron, so your admin screens never wait on them.
• 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

• Site Maintenance Features:

  • External link, image and embed checking — everything the free scanner cannot reach without leaving your site
  • Scheduled and background scans, so problems are found before your visitors find them
  • Bulk fixes across every occurrence at once, with AI replacement suggestions
  • Broken links grouped by cause — timeout, DNS, SSL, rate limited — instead of one long list
  • 302 and 307 redirects, regex and prefix matching, and automatic redirects when a slug changes
  • Redirect chain and loop detection across your whole redirect set, plus import / export and analytics
  • 404 analytics, grouping, referrer analysis and bulk redirect creation
  • Safe Revision — an AI suggestion shown as a full diff, with selective approval, merge, publish and rollback
  • AI Content Refresher — scans posts for outdated years, software versions, prices and dead references, and applies approved rewrites as a reversible revision
  • Maintenance Agent — groups related problems, ranks them, prepares a plan for your approval, runs the approved batch and reports what actually changed
  • Bulk clone with metadata selection, WooCommerce-aware and page-builder-aware
  • Conditional, ordered and environment-specific code inserts, with import / export

• 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>

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➡️ Basic Documentation To Get Started

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

👉 Real-time search and replace

• General options for filtering
  • Live Demo & Documentation
• Advance options for filtering
  • Live Demo & Documentation

👉 Search and replace in Database

• Live Demo & Documentation
• Find and replace in Database tables
  • Live Demo & Documentation
• Find and replace in Database URLs
  • Live Demo & Documentation

Forum and Feature Request

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

• Check development status or issues in github.com/CodeSolz/real-time-auto-find-and-replace