78
Search & Replace Everything – Quick and Easy Way to Find and Replace Text, Links
Relief for migrations until you realize the safety net is a paid feature.
HealthyGrowing
78/100
The plugin is helpful for migrations but lacks critical safety features in the free version.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.5★
24 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+16%
Growing
137 → 160 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +16% in the last year
137/day a year ago→160/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySearch & Replace Everything is generally well-regarded as a reliable, easy-to-use find-and-replace tool for WordPress migrations and URL updates, though some users report the replacement silently failing to apply despite the plugin claiming success.
What people like
- +Works reliably for bulk find-and-replace across large sites, including during migrations and restores×5
- +Easy to use with minimal setup×3
- +Responsive support team that issued a fix quickly after a bug report
Common complaints
- −Replacements sometimes silently fail — the plugin reports success but the changes are not actually applied×2
- −PHP fatal error (undefined constant) causes the plugin to crash on some setups
- −One user reported the plugin attempted to subscribe the admin email to an external mailing list without consent
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.57★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 4%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 24 total
Latest reviews · 24 analyzed
- 2026-04-21★★★★★latest version broke my siterafi.w
- 2026-04-16★★★★★How do you mess this up?nihonscope
- 2026-01-14★★★★★Fantastic plugindavidjax
- 2025-12-13★★★★★Easy & fastwebdesguy
- 2025-10-31★★★★★An incredible time saverMagnus Andreasson
- 2025-10-31★★★★★Perfect, lifesaver!Zee
- 2025-07-17★★★★★Perfect plugin!Mike K.
- 2025-07-14★★★★★Great and Fast URL Change, i really like this pluginvapeprocom
- 2025-04-29★★★★★Keep up the good workgtlitc
- 2025-03-27★★★★★Perfectungowp
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
194
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
210
Prior 7-day baseline
213
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,931
Mean release-day peak (30d)
390
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-7.6%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
10%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.20
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
79%
5★ share in analyzed sample
4%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
0%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.50 → 4.57★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered