How to Search and Replace on Your Blog - the Easy Way | WPTemplates.net

Anyone who has a WordPress blog will probably find that at some point it is necessary to perform a search and replace on your blog. This is usually necessary when something odd is happening and you just can’t figure out what or where the problem is. For example there may be a weird character in blog entries, you’ve found a typo and are concerned that it may appear in other areas of your blog or maybe you want to rename your keywords. Whatever the reason, there is an easy way to do a search and replace in blog posts. This is how you accomplish this task:

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You can do a search and replace with a WordPress plugin that is called, you guessed it, the Search and Replace plugin. This plugin is used with the WordPress Admin section (WP-Admin). Simply download and install the Search and Replace plugin and you will be able to search and replace in the following areas: content, titles, excerpts, comments content and comments author.

That’s it, pretty easy, right? Of course there are more difficult ways to accomplish if you want to get into the programming aspect of a WordPress blog, but it really is not necessary to make this too complicated.

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