I’m excited to see that Better Search Replace has just hit another milestone: 50,000 active installs! That’s not bad for being released in January. That said, it’s a good time to sum up some of the recent and future updates to the plugin.
Better Search Replace is a WordPress plugin that was designed to make it easier to run a safe search/replace on a WordPress database. It was based heavily on the battle-tested Search Replace DB script by Interconnect/It, with some modifications to make sure it works without configuration in every WordPress install. The plugin got pretty popular, getting over 10,000 (read more…)
You can install Better Search Replace Pro by uploading the files through the WordPress dashboard. Once you’ve downloaded the .zip file from your purchase receipt, login to your WordPress site and navigate to Plugins -> Add New. Click the Upload Plugin button at the top of the screen, and upload the .zip file from your (read more…)
You can install Better Search Replace Pro by uploading the plugin files via FTP or SFTP using a program like FileZilla. Once you’ve downloaded the .zip file from your purchase receipt, unzip the file and upload the ” better-search-replace-pro” folder to your WordPress plugins folder (usually in public_html/wp-content/plugins). After uploading the files, login to your (read more…)
This guide assumes that you have already installed and activated the plugin as shown in the following articles: Installing via WordPress Installing via FTP or SFTP To get support and future updates to the plugin, you must activate your license. You can do that by going to Tools -> Better Search Replace Pro -> Settings and (read more…)