Title: Batch image replacing plugin?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Batch image replacing plugin?

 *  [vidgames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vidgames/)
 * (@vidgames)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/batch-image-replacing-plugin/)
 * Hello,
 * I recently moved my wordpress.com-hosted blog to my own custom domain. For image
   hosting, I previously always used Imageshack.
 * Now that I’m on my own server I want to preserve the images permanently, since
   we all know they’ll get deleted on Imageshack eventually.
 * However, I’ve got about 400 articles with images in them. So is there some plugin
   that would, for example, look through every existing article for images, and 
   replace the URL part in front every image filename with one I specify? Then I
   could just save all images to my server and would not need to go through every
   single article, replacing the URLs manually.
 * If there is no such plugin – could anyone tell me how to write one?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/batch-image-replacing-plugin/#post-581982)
 * I think what you need is Search & Replace. Either do it in MySQL probably using
   PHPMyAdmin, or, I think there is a Search And Replace plugin for WP that handles
   it.
 * Just be careful writing your S&R so you don’t overwrite any non-JPEG URL’s. It
   shouldn’t be too hard if allllll your pictures and nothing else starts with [http://www.imageshack](http://www.imageshack)
 *  [jabecker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabecker/)
 * (@jabecker)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/batch-image-replacing-plugin/#post-581983)
 * Backup your database first!
 * Actually, you could export your database to a file and do the mass edit in Notepad,
   then reimport it.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/batch-image-replacing-plugin/#post-581983)
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