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What is the purpose of this plugin?

With blogs growing larger and larger all the time, Find and Replacer makes it super easy to edit pages throughout your blog installation. Change everything from words and phrases to complete tags.

What options are available?

In the interface panel, you have the ability to fine tune the editing process. You can: * enter the starting and ending page IDs of posts you want to modify * select the entire post database * choose between editing the post content, title, or both * view page IDs and other data for your posts * choose to include comments in the search * skip revisions to retain backups

How does it all work?

Find and Replacer uses the REGEX engine, or regular expressions. This is a powerful system built into PHP for finding and replacing text when only specific data is known. This is the only way to replace entire tags in one pass.

Can I replace tags around other tags?

Fixed in version 1.1, Find and Replacer can now replace tags even when surrounding other tags. For more examples please visit the plugin homepage.

What if something doesn't give me the result I want?

Since this type of application can have so many possible scenarios, please make a comment on the original blog post when you get undesired results. Please be as specific as possible.

Can it replace text over multiple lines?

Yes. If you are replacing text with multiple lines and you want to preserve text inside it, you just need to put the placeholder () in the correct spot. For example, if you have 5 lines of whitespace and the text you want to preserve is on the 3rd line, that's where the () should be.

How does Find and Replacer work with revisions?

As of v1.5, Find and Replacer changes the way it interacts with revisions. Previously it edited each entry in the database as if it were the same. Now, you have the option to skip revisions. This means that if your search does not go the way you want, you can return to a previous revision with no issue.

Can I modify comments?

In v1.5, yes.