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1. janrains
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   as the topic title, i want to mass edit/deactivate Linked text inside all my posts, was there any plugin that can do that? please tell me or any hacks available guys? please help & assist. thank you.

2. dor
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You can try re.place plugin:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/replace/

   As a wild guess:

   Search for:
   <a[^>]*>([^<]*)</a>

   Replace with:
   \1

   (not tested though)

   Explanation:
   Search for "<a" followed by any number of any letters but ">", followed by ">", followed by any number of any letters but "<", followed by "</a>". And remember parenthesed sequence of letters.

   And replace matched string with remembered sequence.

   This could help (if i understood you question,-)

   Sorry for my english.

3. dor
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Sorry!!

   You should search for:
   <a [^>]*>([^<]*)<\/a>

   It works. Tested :-)

4. janrains
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   thanks dor for your respons, but it doesn't save the post, it only "on the fly" effect. how could i save the change after deactivating links?

5. janrains
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   oh yeah dor.. please try this too..: http://urbangiraffe.com/resources/download/plugin/search-regex.zip - it does tha save function, i already try it but i really noob at regexp. if i apply the regexp you explain above in this search-regex plugin from urbangiraffe, resulting invalid regular expression : Unknown modifier ']'
   please test and let me know if it works.

6. dor
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   About search regex -- yes, it modifies stored data (that's not what i needed, that's why i wrote re.place actually).

   No, i'm afraid i wouldn't try search and replace, sorry :-(

   But you can ask author of this plugin, try here: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/search-regex/

7. janrains
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   ok thanks for your respons.

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