Title: Search Regex
Author: John Godley
Published: <strong>17 Settembre 2007</strong>
Last modified: 6 Giugno 2026

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# Search Regex

 Di [John Godley](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnny5/)

[Scarica](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/search-regex.3.4.2.zip)

 * [Dettagli](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/#description)
 * [Recensioni](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/#reviews)
 *  [Installazione](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/#installation)
 * [Sviluppo](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/#developers)

 [Supporto](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-regex/)

## Descrizione

Search Regex aggiunge un set potente di funzioni di ricerca e sostituzione per articoli,
pagine, tipi di articolo personalizzati e altre sorgenti dati di WordPress. Queste
vanno oltre le capacità standard di ricerca e ti consentono di cercare e sostituire
quasi ogni dato conservato nel tuo sito. In aggiunta alla semplice ricerca hai a
disposizione tutta la potenza delle espressioni regolari di PHP.

Puoi usarlo per fare cose come:
 – Migrare un sito da un dominio a un altro – Aggiornare
gli URL nei link e nelle immagini – Effettuare cambiamenti in tutto il sito

Search filters can be created to match any column of any WordPress table. For example:
–
Find all posts in a category – Find all post meta data without a post – Find all
posts in a date range

Search Regex gestisce siti piccoli e grandi.

Search Regex has been tested with PHP from 7.4 to 8.4.

### Cosa posso cercare?

You can search:
 – Posts – Pages – Any custom post type – Comments (including spam)–
Users – Meta data – WordPress options

È disponibile il pieno supporto alle espressioni regolari che ti consentono di catturare
dati e di usarli nella sostituzione.

### Actions

A variety of actions can be performed on matching results:
 – Modify and replace
the result – Delete the result – Export to CSV and SQL – Perform custom PHP action

### Modify and Replace Data

Results can be individually modified by clicking on the item to change, and using
the popup modifier.

Bulk modifications can be performed against all matching results.

The types of modification depend on the data being changed:
 – Numbers can be added
or subtracted to existing numbers – Hours, days, weeks, and months, can be added
to dates – Tags and categories can be added, removed, and substitued

Custom shortcodes are supported that allow dynamic data to be included:
 – Add the
current date and time, in any format, to content – Insert data from other columns.
For example, insert the category into the title – Transform existing data. For example,
convert case, change underscores to dashes.

### Example uses

Some ideas for potential uses:
 – Delete all comments that match a phrase – Add 
a category to all matching posts – Remove orphaned meta data

### Supporto

Invia segnalazioni di bug, patch e richieste di nuove funzioni a:

[https://github.com/johngodley/search-regex](https://github.com/johngodley/search-regex)

Invia le traduzioni a:

[https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/search-regex](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/search-regex)

### Translations

Translations are provided by WordPress itself. You can update the translations by
going to the Dashboard > Updates section of WP admin.

### Documentazione

La documentazione completa si trova nel sito [Search Regex](http://searchregex.com/).

## Screenshot

[⌊Opzioni di ricerca⌉⌊Opzioni di ricerca⌉[

Opzioni di ricerca

[⌊Cerca e sostituisci in linea⌉⌊Cerca e sostituisci in linea⌉[

Cerca e sostituisci in linea

[⌊Editor in linea⌉⌊Editor in linea⌉[

Editor in linea

## Installazione

È semplice installare il plugin:

 1. Scarica `search-regex.zip`
 2. Decomprimi il file
 3. Carica la directory `search-regex` nella tua directory `/wp-content/plugins`
 4. Vai nella pagina di gestione dei plugin e abilita il plugin
 5. Configura le opzioni dalla pagina `Strumenti/Search Regex`

Puoi trovare informazioni dettagliate per installare un plugin nella [pagina di installazione plugin](https://searchregex.com/support/installation/).

## Recensioni

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### 󠀁[Very Nice!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-nice-2054/)󠁿

 [radicalsupportsugitani](https://profiles.wordpress.org/radicalsupportsugitani/)
4 Giugno 2026

I love it

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### 󠀁[Très bien !](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tres-bien-233/)󠁿

 [Mick83](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mick83/) 3 Maggio 2026

Parfait et simple à utiliser. Merci.

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### 󠀁[Handy for search-and-replace, but “Delete Matches” is dangerous](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/handy-for-search-and-replace-but-delete-matches-is-dangerous/)󠁿

 [hakuna4matata](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hakuna4matata/) 21 Luglio 2025

This plugin does a great job when you just want to find and replace text across 
your site. The interface is clear, the regex support works well, and the preview
feature is very useful. However, the “Delete Matches” action is misleading—and potentially
disastrous. I expected it to remove only the matched text, but it actually deletes
the entire record (and even associated attachments) whenever it finds a match. There’s
no clear warning that you’ll lose whole posts and media files. Use with extreme 
caution, or stick to the replace functionality only.

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### 󠀁[Amazing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-4083/)󠁿

 [humananimal](https://profiles.wordpress.org/humananimal/) 16 Gennaio 2025

Dear John, you are so GODLEY!! thank you for this wonderful super helpful plugin!
May I buy you a ticket to Disneyland?? 😉

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### 󠀁[Incredibly powerful!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incredibly-powerful-9/)󠁿

 [kelson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kelson/) 16 Dicembre 2024

Incredibly powerful search tool for your dashboard, especially useful if, for example,
you’ve moved to a new server (or a new site structure), or someone’s changed their
name, or any other reason you might need to update a lot of things at once in the
same way. Risky too – make sure you preview any replacements first!

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### 󠀁[The Best Regex Replace](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-best-regex-replace/)󠁿

 [Alex](https://profiles.wordpress.org/asterix/) 3 Ottobre 2024

Works perfectly. For those having issues, you need to proceed with regex with caution(
always backup first), as the plugin notes.

 [ Leggi tutte le recensioni di 99 ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-regex/reviews/)

## Contributi e sviluppo

“Search Regex” è un software open source. Le persone che hanno contribuito allo 
sviluppo di questo plugin sono indicate di seguito.

Collaboratori

 *   [ John Godley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnny5/)

“Search Regex” è stato tradotto in 7 lingue. Grazie a [chi traduce](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/search-regex/contributors)
per il contributo.

[Traduci “Search Regex” nella tua lingua.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/search-regex)

### Ti interessa lo sviluppo?

[Esplora il codice](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/search-regex/) segui
il [repository SVN](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/search-regex/), segui il [log delle modifiche](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/search-regex/)
tramite [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/search-regex/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 3.4.2 – May 31st 2026

 * Better older PHP compatibility
 * Improve UTF8 collation searching
 * Improve WP 7.0 admin styling

#### 3.4.1 – February 28th 2026

 * Fix problem with export data

#### 3.4 – February 14th 2026

 * Include term description in searches

#### 3.3.1 – January 16th 2026

 * Fix replace all with regex
 * Fix presets on page load
 * Fix crash when adding a modification
 * Fix missing source param from column context
 * Add browser extension error detection
 * Add mid-update cache clearing detection

#### 3.3.0 – January 11th 2026

 * Add a simple/advanced mode toggle
 * Add delete confirmation dialog
 * Improve case-sensitive search to properly handle emojis and multi-byte characters
 * Improved client code
 * Use PHP autoloading for better performance
 * Bump minimum PHP to 7.4

#### 3.2 – December 22nd 2025

 * Add WP CLI functions
 * Variety of small fixes and improvements
 * Update for WordPress 6.9
 * Bump PHP minimum to 7.2

#### 3.1.2 – December 29th 2024

 * Fix crash when loading from a preset with an ‘includes any’

#### 3.1.1 – November 23rd 2024

 * Update for WordPress 6.7

#### 3.1.0 – August 8th 2024

 * Update for latest WP
 * Fix export of regular expression result
 * Switch to WP core translations
 * See changelog.txt for more details

## Meta

 *  Versione **3.4.2**
 *  Ultimo aggiornamento **3 settimane fa**
 *  Installazioni attive **100.000+**
 *  Versione WordPress ** 6.6 o superiore **
 *  Testato fino alla versione **7.0**
 *  Versione PHP ** 7.4 o superiore **
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 * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/), [Dutch (Belgium)](https://nl-be.wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/),
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   [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/),
   [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/), e [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/).
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 *  [Visualizzazione avanzata](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/advanced/)

## Valutazioni

 4.7 su 5 stelle.

 *  [  85 recensioni a 5-stelle     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-regex/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  7 recensioni a 4-stelle     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-regex/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  3 recensioni a 3-stelle     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-regex/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  1 2- recensioni a stelle     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-regex/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  3 recensioni a 1-stelle     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-regex/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-regex/reviews/#new-post)

[Vedi tutte le recensioni](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-regex/reviews/)

## Collaboratori

 *   [ John Godley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnny5/)

## Supporto

Hai qualcosa da dire? Ti serve aiuto?

 [Chiedi nel forum di supporto](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-regex/)

## Dona

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 [ Fai una donazione per questo plugin ](http://searchregex.com/donation/)