Choose where WordPress changes take effect

Better Find And Replace Pro searches and replaces text, HTML, links, media references, and database URLs across a WordPress site. Database replacements can target selected tables and content areas, including custom tables, and support serialized data. Regular expressions, whole-word matching, and filters for titles, content, or excerpts help narrow a replacement. Rules can also cover static or dynamic content, including content loaded through Ajax or jQuery.

Real-time masking changes text, links, or HTML as a page loads without changing stored database content. Rules can use case-sensitive or case-insensitive matching, Unicode, and shortcode handling, with options to skip selected posts, pages, taxonomies, CSS, or JavaScript, or preserve matching text in specified areas.

Preview database replacements before applying them

Enter the search and replacement values, select the relevant tables or content areas, and choose Dry Run to generate a report. Review the affected rows and data. If the preview is accurate, close the report, uncheck Dry Run, and click Find & Replace. Database replacements cannot be undone unless the Pro undo feature was installed before the replacement.

Update media and page links

Replace images by dragging and dropping a new file, regenerate thumbnails, and update or add alt text, captions, and metadata. AI suggestions can propose replacement text and media-related improvements. Safe Media Replacement keeps the original file until the new upload has committed, then restores it automatically if something goes wrong. Missing Media Detection finds content that points to documents no longer on the server and lets you replace them.

Scan internal links in posts, pages, and public custom post types. Results show where each broken link appears, its link text, and how often it is used. Pro maintenance utilities can also check external links, images, and embeds; schedule or execute scans in the background; group failures by cause, such as timeout, DNS, SSL, or rate limiting; and apply bulk fixes across occurrences.

Manage redirects and 404s

Create and switch 301 redirects on or off, with hit counts. Pro includes 302 and 307 redirects, regex and prefix matching, and automatic redirects when a slug changes. Redirect checks detect chains and loops, including self-redirects. Import and export redirects and review analytics.

The optional 404 Monitor records hits with referrers and hit counts while filtering bot traffic. Turn an entry into a redirect or find where the missing URL is still linked. Replace + Redirect changes a URL throughout content and makes its matching redirect in one previewed step, so existing shared links can continue to reach the intended destination.

Review maintenance and AI-assisted edits

The Site Health Dashboard brings together a score, issue count, and activity log. Safe Revision presents an AI suggestion as a full diff for selective approval, merging, publishing, or rollback. AI Content Refresher scans posts for outdated years, software versions, prices, and dead references; approved rewrites are applied as reversible revisions. Maintenance Agent groups related problems, ranks them, prepares a plan for approval, runs the approved batch, and reports what changed.

Clone content and add code snippets

Duplicate or clone posts, pages, and public custom post types as drafts. Pro bulk cloning supports metadata selection and is WooCommerce-aware and page-builder-aware. Code Inserts adds HTML, CSS, or JavaScript snippets to the header, body start, or footer without editing the theme. Pro adds conditional, ordered, and environment-specific inserts with import and export. PHP is not executed. Long scans can run through Action Scheduler or WP-Cron so administration screens do not wait for them.

Install and get started

Install and activate Better Find And Replace Pro in WordPress, then open its options and choose a task. For a database replacement, enter the search and replacement values, select the relevant tables or content areas, and generate a Dry Run report. Review the affected rows and data before disabling Dry Run and applying the change. Configure scans, redirects, media actions, and AI-assisted workflows in their corresponding settings areas.