Title: Search and replace?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Search and replace?

 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-and-replace/)
 * Can WordPress search and replace part of entries? I loved that feature in Greymatter
   and Movable Type. If it can’t, what other blogs can?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-and-replace/#post-86492)
 * No it can’t.
    You effectively have 2 choices: 1- Ask someone to write the necessary
   sql query for you (or find something on the net) 2- Export the table containing
   the data you need to alter, run a search/replace on the data using a good text-
   editor, then reimport the table. That’s it I’m afraid – is it something important/
   crucial ?
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-and-replace/#post-86496)
 * I’m going to go with the text editor thing. For future notice, is there another
   software besides GM and MT that can do it? They have to rebuild and I hate that!
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-and-replace/#post-86498)
 * I honestly don’t know.
    I do know that just for fun – and on a test blog – I 
   have exported, changed, and imported data without error several times. I use 
   [PSPad](http://www.pspad.com) as my text editor of choice.
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-and-replace/#post-86499)
 * Nothing I can remember off the top of my head, but adding this to WordPress should
   be easy enough, if one has the time and inclination.
 *  [the_dead_one](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the_dead_one/)
 * (@the_dead_one)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-and-replace/#post-86733)
 * Don’t know if anyone is monitoring this thread… but I wrote a Search and Replace
   plugin that is essentially an SQL UPDATE (i.e. what is being dicussed here). 
   You can get it from [here](http://thedeadone.net/?p=183) or from [wp-plugins.net](http://wp-plugins.net)

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