Comments on: Bulk search-and-replace for blog entries

By: mojtaba

mojtaba — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:48:39 +0000

wo0w

By: Ramon Fincken

Ramon Fincken — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:47:36 +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: Meditation Mike

Meditation Mike — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:33:41 +0000

Great post try checking out some of the wordpress plugins.

By: suchmaschinenoptimierung

suchmaschinenoptimierung — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:06:10 +0000

I am looking to replace mass content simultaneously from a data bank at regular time sequences to refresh content…is this possible?

By: Mentalidade

Mentalidade — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:34:59 +0000

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By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:26:36 +0000

“What’s the functional difference between installing a WP plugin that does some task, and setting up and running a separate script that uses the WP API to do that task?”

None really if you do it in the geeky way I did.

But I’m imagining a service that would do the latter thing as an agent for the user.

That service would thus provide a feature — in a way that would be independent of any blog publishing platform — that users could access and pay for a la carte.

By: Reed H

Reed H — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:01:53 +0000

What’s the functional difference between installing a WP plugin that does some task, and setting up and running a separate script that uses the WP API to do that task? There is an access/security issue, and there are usability pros and cons to each I guess… but it seems more like a tradeoff than a sure win/lose.

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:14:51 +0000

mrblogdotorg:

> I know of a plugin for WordPress to do
> this.

jason:

> the Search and Replace
> [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins
> /search-and-replace/] plugin did the job
> for me.

Thanks for those pointers.

FWIW, on this iteration of my blog I decided not to use a DIY wordpress.com setup, although I’m clearly capable of doing so, but rather to use the standard kit provided at wordpress.com.

One reason was so that I could have the same experience as people who can’t or don’t want to DIY.

From that perspective, I’m now thinking about all the folks in that category who will never want to monkey with plugins, but who do need services that plugins typically provide, and that /could/ be provided by external tools or services through APIs.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:55:44 +0000

I recently went through a similar process, moving from Movable Type to WordPress AND changing namespaces at the same time.

It was slightly tricky, but the combination of HTTP 301 redirects and the Search and Replace [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/] plugin did the job for me.

By: mrblogdotorg

mrblogdotorg — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:42:35 +0000

I know of a plugin for WordPress to do this. I used it once when I converted my blog into WordPress. http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/search-regex