dgrundel / url-find-and-replace-wordpress

Find a string in the current URL, replace it, and redirect to the new URL

url-find-and-replace-wordpress

Find a string in the current URL, replace it, and redirect to the new URL. The redirect used is a "301 moved permanently".

Configure your find and replace strings in Settings -> Permalinks in the WordPress admin panel.

No, it doesn't support using a regex. If you're smart enough to know how to write a regex, I suspect you can fork the plugin and replace the following line of code yourself:

$redirect_url = str_replace($old, $new, $current_url);

Example

• Let's say, for instance, that you own two domains: myawesomedomain.com and mysweetdomain.com.
• Your WordPress site is currently being shown on myawesomedomain.com
• You want your WordPress site to show on mysweetdomain.com
• Install this plugin and configure your find string to be "myawesomedomain.com" and your replace string to be "mysweetdomain.com".
• Note that you must configure your hosting environment such that both myawesomedomain.com and mysweetdomain.com point to the same web root, or at least exact duplicate copies.

I realize that the actual usefulness of this plugin is quite limited. I also realize that the same effect (or better) could be achieved via .htaccess files.

Use with caution. If you do break your website with this plugin, just delete it via FTP.