Comments on: Global Find and Replace In WordPress using MySQL

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

By: irms

irms — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:33:04 +0000

@Ovidiu I wrote a quick script you can upload to your server and do a find and replace across an entire database. Use at your own risk! There are no real safeguards in this script. One string simply replaces another string.

http://blog.irmsgeekwork.com/2009/phpmysql-full-database-search-and-replace

By: ITCN

ITCN — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:45:53 +0000

@ovidiu You can’t do a whole database search and replace at once (at least not with 1 SQL statement); you have to do it table by table, but you can use the same query I noted above.

By: ovidiu

ovidiu — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:48:35 +0000

how would I search i.e. mydomain.com and replace with mydomain.org throughout a whole database, not just in posts/pages?

By: heyman Smulders

heyman Smulders — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:56:25 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks! I was searching all over for a fix like this. Didn’t even know where to run the script so i added a mini tutorial for dummies like myself below.

Cheers,
Heyman

How to run/execute sql script
-Login phpMyAdmin
-Click Databases
-Click the database WordPress is using
-Click the SQL tab
use the code, hit go