Best replace plugins for WordPress
The most popular replace plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Enable Media Replace leads with 600K+ active installs, ahead of Search Regex (100K+) and Search & Replace (100K+). All 74 plugins tagged “replace” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 replace plugins
- 1.
Enable Media ReplaceThe most installed replace plugin, with 600K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 302 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Search Regex100K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 101 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
Search & Replace100K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 283 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 4.
Real-Time Find and Replace70K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 82 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Remove Footer Credit60K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 88 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
Search & Replace Everything by WPCode20K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 7 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
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Search and Replace9K+ active installs. Rated 3.1 from 23 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
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Replace Image8K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 65 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
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Text Replace3K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 18 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
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CM Search And Replace2K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 15 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
All 74 plugins tagged “replace”

Enable Media Replace
#94by ShortPixel13 days ago
Easily replace any attached image/file by simply uploading a new file in the Media Library edit view - a real time saver!
- Installs
- 600K+
- Rating
- 4.4(302)
- Downloads
- 10.1K/day

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

Search & Replace
#362by WP Media2 years ago
Search & Replace data in your database with WordPress admin, replace domains/URLs of your WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.3(283)
- Downloads
- 269/day

Real-Time Find and Replace
Down in the last 7 days:1#588by Marios Alexandrou2 months ago
Set up find and replace rules that are executed AFTER a page is generated by WordPress, but BEFORE it is sent to a user's browser.
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.5(82)
- Downloads
- 129/day

Remove Footer Credit
Down in the last 7 days:1#650by WP Chill2 months ago
Remove or change footer credits or any text or HTML without modifying code.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.7(88)
- Downloads
- 120/day

Search & Replace Everything by WPCode
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,086by WPCode3 months ago
Search and Replace everything in WordPress. Easily find and replace media, images, text, links and more with a single click using a simple user interf …
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 3.9(7)
- Downloads
- 201/day

Search and Replace
Down in the last 7 days:17#2,274by manu2252 months ago
Search and replace content into pages and posts
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 3.1(23)
- Downloads
- 34/day

Replace Image
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,396by WP Zone2 years ago
Upload a new version of an image without deleting the old image attachment, so that references to the image remain intact.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.6(65)
- Downloads
- 39/day

Text Replace
Down in the last 7 days:5#3,951by Scott Reilly5 years ago
Replace text with other text. Handy for creating shortcuts to common, lengthy, or frequently changing text/HTML, or for smilies.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.4(18)
- Downloads
- 15/day

CM Search And Replace
Down in the last 7 days:15#4,555by CreativeMindsSolutions26 days ago
Search and replace words, phrases, and HTML within your website posts and pages.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.2(15)
- Downloads
- 50/day

Media Library File Download
Up in the last 7 days:74#6,008by wpluna1 month ago
Download original media, export your library as a ZIP, and replace files while keeping their URLs. By WP Luna.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.3(7)
- Downloads
- 40/day

Replace Google Fonts with Bunny Fonts
Down in the last 7 days:15#7,144by Antonio Leutsch3 years ago
Replace Google Fonts with Bunny Fonts in the HTML Markup of your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.3(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Search and Replace for Block Editor
Down in the last 7 days:32#8,583by badasswp2 months ago
Search and Replace text within the WordPress Block Editor just like Microsoft Word or Google Docs. It's super fast, easy & just works!
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Power Boost for Gravity Forms
Up in the last 7 days:46#8,931by Corey Salzano16 days ago
An add-on for Gravity Forms. Enhances Gravity Forms for power users.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Find And Replace Text
Down in the last 7 days:55#9,882by Jesse Lau8 years ago
A simple plugin to install find and replace function button in WordPress editor on both visual TinyMCE and text mode.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Sigma Search & Replace
Up in the last 7 days:225#11,600by Younes JFR.1 month ago
The ultimate search & replace plugin for WordPress. Safely update text, URLs, and serialized data across your entire database with confidence.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day

WP Find And Replace
Down in the last 7 days:97#12,610by Afzal Multani9 years ago
Find and replace content into pages and posts
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.2(10)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Replace Contents
Up in the last 7 days:95#12,623by Katsushi Kawamori2 months ago
Replaces text and HTML tags in the content.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
TM Replace Howdy
Down in the last 7 days:102#12,749by David Wood11 years ago
Banish the "Howdy" greeting from the WordPress admin area with this simple to use plugin!
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Word Replace
Down in the last 7 days:13#12,753by mehdi jalili2 months ago
Easily Replace text, footer credits, jQuery/Ajax loaded text or anything in real-time.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Space Remover
Down in the last 7 days:118#16,559by mgwe10 years ago
Space Remover removes any leading or trailing spaces from your post and page content. Securing a clean and consistent website layout.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Replace & Rename Media Files
Up in the last 7 days:190#16,972by WPVibes1 year ago
Replace existing media files, rename media files, and display file sizes in the WordPress media library.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Search & Replace Text in Blocks
Down in the last 7 days:399#17,027by Fernando Tellado1 month ago
Search and replace text within Gutenberg text blocks directly from the block editor.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Text Replacer
Down in the last 7 days:135#17,685by teamuqb3 years ago
Replace one or more words, or entire sentence across all posts and pages reliably with Text Replacer.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
neo Replace
Down in the last 7 days:389#17,783by neoWP Media Image Plugins5 days ago
Simple replacement with drag and drop!
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 22/day
searchReplace
Up in the last 7 days:54#25,947by Joost1 year ago
SearchReplace checks for and replaces content in your posts, pages and/or comments. Fully configurable.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

Smart Media Replacement
Down in the last 7 days:317#25,961by Troy Chaplin3 months ago
Replace media files in place with revision history. Audit your library to find unused files and missing alt text.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mana Symbols
#26,052by Tim Glushkov13 years ago
Mana Symbols replaces shortcodes with Magic: The Gathering mana symbols.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Text Obfuscator
#26,967by confuzzledduck10 years ago
Replaces words and phrases in your posts' content with alternative words and phrases.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
FileRenameReplace
Up in the last 7 days:27#27,608by Albin8 years ago
This plugin let the user renaming or replacing files without breaking links.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Word Filter Plus
Down in the last 7 days:288#28,901by Brian Layman12 years ago
Update or clean the contents of your site, by filtering or replacing words and phrases in your posts, pages, excerpts, titles and comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
HTML Regex Replace
#29,832by 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
Undo WordPress Default Formatting
#30,555by Mattiasgeniar15 years ago
This plugin undoes some of the default formatting that gets applied to new posts created via Wordpress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Text Swap
Up in the last 7 days:544#31,555by fojroom1 year ago
Short Description: A plugin to dynamically replace text in WordPress posts and pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Social Handles
Down in the last 7 days:133#34,684by RiverCityGraphix14 years ago
The Social Handles plugin allows you to quickly replace social handles with links to their respective profiles.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Replace diacritics
#35,219by chr4515 years ago
This plugin has two modes of transforming romanian diacritics: in HTML codes or standard letters.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pokémon Accented E
Up in the last 7 days:3,035#35,515by Adam Capriola12 years ago
Automatically corrects instances of the word Pokemon to Pokémon in your post content and titles.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Slug accent's replacer
Up in the last 7 days:10,294#36,153by sebastianbarria15 years ago
Before a slug is created, this function replaces the latin characters with their similar unaccented letter
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day
LJ user ex
Up in the last 7 days:6,072#36,241by melfa18 years ago
Replaces <lj user="username"/> and <lj comm="community"/> with correct HTML code.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Replace
Up in the last 7 days:8,671#37,162by Think2018 years ago
Easy Replace provides you easiest way to find a phrase and replace in no time. This can be applied to various categories of post types.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

MultiReplace
Up in the last 7 days:4,546#42,604by rtowebsites8 years ago
With this plugin can you replace every string in wp_posts, post-meta and wp_options.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Chesser AutoReplace
#43,162by chesser15 years ago
Chesser AutoReplace plugin finds and replaces substrings according to configured replacement rules. For example, it is used to replace text keyphrases …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Arbitrary Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:5,196#45,097by philfreo17 years ago
Allows page content to contain arbitrary shortcodes (e.g., [email]) that are replaced by the values of the home page's custom fields.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hide and Catch Email
#45,433by Austin12 years ago
Adds a metabox to post/page and allows you to hide the content, and show only on form submission.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Google Image Proxy
Down in the last 7 days:1,769#46,480by muzuiget16 years ago
Rewrite the image address to googleusercontent.com proxy address.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Text Filtering
Down in the last 7 days:3,263#46,578by ajarunthomas5 years ago
Filter out the text in your posts, replace them with your preferred phrase across all your posts or for the specified category posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

FlairBees Post Word Filter & Replace
Down in the last 7 days:414#48,325by Imran Hosein Khan Joy1 year ago
An easy to use plugin that allows you to filter an replace words/strings on your site post's without editing WordPress
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Filter Comments
#48,353by Adnan Afzal7 years ago
Filter Comments allows you to replace or remove specific words from user comments. So you no longer have to worry about bad comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

FileQuarry
#48,697by Kanajariya Ashish19 days ago
Find and edit code or text strings in your themes, plugins and database, directly from wp-admin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Honest Site Text Updater
#55,138by honestplugins5 days ago
Find and replace text across your whole site. See every change before it happens, untick what you want to keep, and undo with one click.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 67/day