Best regex plugins for WordPress
The most popular regex plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Search Regex leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Advanced Custom Fields (100+) and Regex Textfield (80+). All 12 plugins tagged “regex” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 regex plugins
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Search RegexThe most installed regex plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 101 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Advanced Custom Fields100+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 22 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 3.
Regex Textfield80+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 days ago.
- 4.
Make Clickable Tweet20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 5.
Jessore Find & Replace20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
HTML Regex Replace10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 7.
Regex Validation for Gravity Forms10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
- 8.
Flux RedirectFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 months ago.
- 9.
Webidextrous Time Delayed RedirectsFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
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Hide/Remove TextFewer than 10 active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
All 12 plugins tagged “regex”
Search Regex
Down in the last 7 days:1#291by John Godley1 month ago
Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and other data.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.7(101)
- Downloads
- 1.2K/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:72#13,878by doublesharp11 years ago
The Validated Field add-on for Advanced Custom Fields provides input masking and server-side validation of other field types.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(22)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Regex Textfield
Down in the last 7 days:234#18,178by Peshmerge Morad4 days ago
A WordPress plugin and GravityForms addon to enable users to use regex string on text input field to control user input.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Make Clickable Tweet
Down in the last 7 days:84#26,730by clarklab14 years ago
A plugin for converting @user mentions, #hashtags and URLs in a tweet into clickable links.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Jessore Find & Replace
Up in the last 7 days:415#28,519by sadathossainwp2 months ago
Unlimited, real-time find & replace for your site's output — text, HTML, or link URLs — with no changes to your theme or plugin files.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
HTML Regex Replace
Up in the last 7 days:140#29,856by Nick Lugovskoy15 years ago
Replace any html you write in editor (Visual or HTML) with pre-defined string. Use Regexp to define patterns for replacement.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Regex Validation for Gravity Forms
Down in the last 7 days:2,590#34,489by zirkel.design12 days ago
Adds custom regex validation with Unicode support and presets to Gravity Forms fields.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day
Flux Redirect
#56,663by Utsav Singh Rathour3 months ago
Monitor 404 requests and create redirects with regex support, post search, and smart destination suggestions.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Webidextrous Time Delayed Redirects
Up in the last 7 days:1,347#65,536by Rob Watson1 year ago
Professional redirect management with multiple HTTP status codes, regex support, and export/import capabilities.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hide/Remove Text
Down in the last 7 days:14,669#69,763by trivetechnology6 years ago
Easily hide/remove e-mails, urls, phone numbers and other text from your users. The actual text is never removed; it is just hidden from website visit …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ZA Redirects
Down in the last 7 days:5,232#69,790by Hamada Zayed6 months ago
Manage exact and regex redirects (301, 302, 307, 410, 451) with built-in hit tracking and analytics from a custom WordPress dashboard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Spam Slayer for Gravity Forms
Down in the last 7 days:18,157#73,293by Mira4 months ago
Advanced spam cleanup and regex-powered spam detection for Gravity Forms entries.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day