Comments on: Global Find and Replace In WordPress using MySQL

By: Leland Gold

Leland Gold — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:55:12 +0000

Thanks a lot barry man! I use this so much now, I’m not sure what I would do without it. Just got into this myself, but thanks again for the help!

By: Shovan

Shovan — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:01:48 +0000

Yay! It works, But my WP-Admin still redirects to old site.. any ideas?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:50:34 +0000

You probably want to also do the search and replace on the wp_postmeta table.

By: Mark Fregnan

Mark Fregnan — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:46:10 +0000

Thank you very much Barry.

Your post saved me hours of work. We wanted to change the HTML code paragraph formatting on our posts and pages and your SQL query did the trick.

I also used the WHERE statement…

-Logged into phpMyAdmin via my Host Cpanel
-Selected the WordPress MYSQL database from the list of databases
-Clicked on table wp_posts
-Clicked the SQL tab
-Cut and pasted the code below, and clicked [Go]

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, ‘OLD HTML’, ‘NEW HTML’) WHERE post_type = ‘post’;

By: Steve Polacek

Steve Polacek — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:02:17 +0000

Thanks Barry! I just used this and it worked like a charm!

By: Ramon Fincken

Ramon Fincken — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:48:10 +0000

I’ve written a plugin at WordPress.org which enables you (with a GUI) to find and replace in your posts,pages and/or trashed items: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/find-replace/

By: Jaco Costa Rica Condos

Jaco Costa Rica Condos — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:21:51 +0000

@David, that is a good idea for the global search and replace. My question is, does the mysql file keeps its structure?

for example, I download and open up in word. Do the search and replace and save. Upload to the server? Is that correct? The file structure should remain the same??

Thanks in advance

By: ADA sport

ADA sport — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:34:43 +0000

This string is exactly what I have been looking Thanks …

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:25:24 +0000

I love the internet, cause smart people like you can make clever people like me – POWERFUL!!

cheers to having the answer when I needed it!!

By: ovidiu

ovidiu — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:05:16 +0000

thx, will check it out