Title: Text not changing
Last modified: March 2, 2018

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# Text not changing

 *  Resolved [svenster7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenster7/)
 * (@svenster7)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-not-changing/)
 * I have tried just word and regex substitution replacement and neither have worked.
   I am just using a simple word but it isn’t being replaced. The text isn’t AJAX
   generated and I tried just searching and replacing just the word head and it 
   wouldn’t work. Is there any way to turn on debugging?

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 *  Plugin Author [Marios Alexandrou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marios-alexandrou/)
 * (@marios-alexandrou)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-not-changing/#post-10033029)
 * There is no debugging for the regex. Technically there isn’t a bug, but rather
   the regex isn’t matching anything based on the way you’ve written it.
 * One thing that often trips up regex users is that they don’t start and end the
   Find with a forward-slash i.e. /. So it should be /rule/ and not just rule.
 * If the above doesn’t fix your issue, paste the rule here.
 *  Thread Starter [svenster7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenster7/)
 * (@svenster7)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-not-changing/#post-10033121)
 * I’m not even trying regex now just trying to replace “head” -> “baby” and it 
   isn’t. I tried
    head -> baby /head/ -> baby
 * What is the simplest test I can do to see if it works at all?
 * [https://www.dropbox.com/s/5sjzd1jk18pdg3j/far.png?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/5sjzd1jk18pdg3j/far.png?dl=0)
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by [svenster7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenster7/).
 *  Plugin Author [Marios Alexandrou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marios-alexandrou/)
 * (@marios-alexandrou)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-not-changing/#post-10033263)
 * I don’t see anything that would keep that from working. It’s as basic a rule 
   as you can get so it’s a good one to test with.
 * Any chance you’ve got caching and you’re seeing the cached version of the page?
 * Would you be willing to post a URL so I could look at the page’s source in my
   browser?
 *  Thread Starter [svenster7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenster7/)
 * (@svenster7)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-not-changing/#post-10033413)
 * [http://www.valeriekayphotography.com:88](http://www.valeriekayphotography.com:88)
 * I verified the plugin runs but the output seems to be ignored.
 * I added the following to the plugin
 *     ```
       function far_ob_call( $buffer ) { // $buffer contains entire page
               file_put_contents('/tmp/test.before', $buffer);
       ....
               file_put_contents('/tmp/test.after', $buffer);
               return $buffer;
       }
       ```
   
 * After I ran it I ran diff against the index.html returned by wget and the test.
   before file and had this. No replacements were made. Is there some kind of ordering
   for plugins and far needs to run after?
 *     ```
       1014c1014,1034
       <                 <!-- ngg_resource_manager_marker --><style type="text/css">
       ---
       >                 <!-- ngg_resource_manager_marker --><script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.valeriekayphotography.com:88/wp-includes/js/underscore.min.js?ver=1.8.3'></script>
       > <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.valeriekayphotography.com:88/wp-includes/js/backbone.min.js?ver=1.2.3'></script>
       > <script type='text/javascript' src='https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/js/devicepx-jetpack.js?ver=201809'></script>
       > <script type='text/javascript'>
       > /* <![CDATA[ */
       >
       > var nextgen_lightbox_settings = {"static_path":"http:\/\/www.valeriekayphotography.com:88\/wp-content\/plugins\/nextgen-gallery\/products\/photocrati_nextgen\/modules\/lightbox\/static","context":"all_images_direct"};
       > /* ]]> */
       > </script>
       > <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.valeriekayphotography.com:88/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/nextgen_gallery_display/static/common.min.js?ver=2.2.46'></script>
       > <script type='text/javascript'>
       > /* <![CDATA[ */
       >
       > var nextgen_shutter2_i18n = ["Previous","Next","Close","Full Size","Fit to Screen","Image","of","Loading..."];
       > /* ]]> */
       > </script>
       > <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.valeriekayphotography.com:88/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/lightbox/static/lightbox_context.min.js?ver=2.2.46'></script>
       > <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.valeriekayphotography.com:88/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/lightbox/static/shutter_reloaded/shutter.min.js?ver=2.2.46'></script>
       > <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.valeriekayphotography.com:88/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/lightbox/static/shutter_reloaded/nextgen_shutter_reloaded.min.js?ver=2.2.46'></script>
       > <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.valeriekayphotography.com:88/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js?ver=4.9.4'></script>
       > <style type="text/css">
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Author [Marios Alexandrou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marios-alexandrou/)
 * (@marios-alexandrou)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-not-changing/#post-10033443)
 * This plugin will run after all others. It works with the output buffer so everything
   should be done running by that point.
 * Is there currently an active rule? If not, can you put a non-regex one
    like 
   this which will have no impact, but be visible to us.
 * Find: </head>
    Replace: </head><!– RTFR Plugin –>
 * I see there is a caching plugin running. Can you try accessing the URL where 
   a replace should happen and append ?param=value e.g.
 * [https://www.valeriekayphotography.com/?param=value](https://www.valeriekayphotography.com/?param=value)
 * That’ll force the cache to refresh or be ignored. Param and value can be anything
   you want.
 *  [hiteshchoudhary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiteshchoudhary/)
 * (@hiteshchoudhary)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-not-changing/#post-10038548)
 * Hello Sir,
    I love your plugin and mostly I use this plugin for some code error
   on the website. But this time it doesn’t work as accepted. Please Visit: [http://prntscr.com/imxouk](http://prntscr.com/imxouk),
   in this I tried to put the code and replace it but it doesn’t show changes after
   updating. And even I tried simply text also but still, it doesn’t show the correction.
   Please visit: [http://prntscr.com/imxom4](http://prntscr.com/imxom4)
 *  Plugin Author [Marios Alexandrou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marios-alexandrou/)
 * (@marios-alexandrou)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-not-changing/#post-10161645)
 * [@svenster7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenster7/) I’m hoping all is
   good since you didn’t reply.
 * [@hiteshchoudhary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiteshchoudhary/) Please
   start your own thread if you continue to have issues.

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