Comments on: Remove/Replace Content from the WordPress Database

By: Colin Helvensteijn

Colin Helvensteijn — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:06:55 +0000

If you know your way around regular expressions, then Search Regex maybe a nice plugin for this kind of stuff. As its name suggests, it allows you to do search & replace actions (including previews before saving to DB) using regular expressions.

By: WPGPL Team

WPGPL Team — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:40:09 +0000

Is it possible to use UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE ( post_content, 'nofollow ', '' ); But using % wilcard? if is it possible, how to use it?

By: kristarella

kristarella — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:27:31 +0000

Should keep in mind that if you’ve written about nofollow before you’ll nuke that too. It might pay to include some of the XHTML syntax to make sure you only get nofollows in a link, not regular post content.

By: Niccolo Favari

Niccolo Favari — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:40:55 +0000

Good to have this kind of code snippets ready at hand. Thanks.

You may also like the adminer plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminer/) which is a sort of phpMyAdmin but… minified (a single php file). It works using your wordpress database connection settings and lets you manage the whole DB. I used it once because I didn’t want to setup the whole phpMyAdmin package.

By: rgregory

rgregory — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:11:30 +0000

I’ve got a potential client that is shying away from wordpress and Shopp plugin because on his current (very bad) site he can change the prices with a find and replace. This might help!

Thanks!

By: Russell Heimlich

Russell Heimlich — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:43:31 +0000

I love the Search and Replace plugin. You still have to backup your database if you’re doing some major work though.

By: Jean-Paul Horn

Jean-Paul Horn — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:39:05 +0000

Of course, there’s probably a plugin that will do all of this for you ;)

There always is one, isn't it ;) Search and Replace is the plugin I'm (sporadically) using, but I tend to use phpMyAdmin as well.

By: Slobodan Kustrimovic

Slobodan Kustrimovic — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:24:38 +0000

Thanks Jeff :) This will be useful to a lot of developers for sure.