Title: Feature Request: JSON support
Last modified: July 3, 2026

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# Feature Request: JSON support

 *  [afwebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afwebdev/)
 * (@afwebdev)
 * [1 day, 15 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-json-support/)
 * It would be a really nice feature if this plugin supported JSON strings in the
   database. For example, Elementor saves a lot of JSON to the wp_postmeta table
   and BSR won’t catch it unless you know to JSON encode your find and replace strings.
 * I’ve implemented this pretty simply before, i.e.:
 *     ```wp-block-code
       $find = 'https://example.com';$replace = 'https://replaced.com';$data = '[{"url":"https:\/\/example.com"}]';$jsonDecoded = json_decode( $data );$isJson      = is_array( $jsonDecoded ) || is_object( $jsonDecoded );$findTerm    = $find;$replaceTerm = $replace;if ($isJson) {	$findTerm    = trim( json_encode( $find ), '"' );	$replaceTerm = trim( json_encode( $replace ), '"' );}// now replace $findTerm with $replaceTerm
       ```
   
    -  This topic was modified 1 day, 15 hours ago by [afwebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afwebdev/).
    -  This topic was modified 1 day, 15 hours ago by [afwebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afwebdev/).

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