Bulk edit tool for posts

wordpress editor plugin

[nimbledigit]

Hello All,

Currently working with a friend on an existing blog with literally thousands of posts already done (blog has been live for several years). I am looking for guidance with editing existing posts. A LOT of the posts contain foul language and I would like to edit/update them in bulk. Is there a tool or plugin that can bulk edit specific words within posts? For instance, all of the (f***ks) can be edit at once without going back into each post to do so.

[tangor]

Have you looked at the profanity filters that are available?

[not2easy]

You could download a copy of the sql table for "comments" and use a text editor to find and delete or replace each instance of any offensive text. The main thing would be to take care to both save an original (just in case) and make certain that the tool you use for fixing won't convert the character set to something new. My suggestions would be Notepad++ for Windows or BBEdit (or their Text Wrangler) on Mac.

[Hoople]

There are a few database level search and replace plugins you can use. Many are used primarily for moving sites to new URL's.

Quite a few of them have the feature to edit/remove words or phrases anywhere.

[nimbledigit]

Thank you friends for the guidance. :)