Search & Replace in Gutenberg

[camya]

Please implement a “Search & Replace” feature in Gutenberg.

I often need this feature for post/page templates with placeholders, which I replace with the correct text. Also I often revisit older articles and have to search & replace wordings.

I know, that I can do some “dirty” tricks to do the Search & Replace in Gutenberg manually on a PC (copy HTML/Gutenberg markup to text editor and replace the text there), but this is problematic, because it could break the HTML/Gutenberg markup, …. and it’s 100% not working on mobile.

In the classic editor, it was easy to add the Search & Replace feature via “TinyMCE Advanced” plugin.

Implementation ideas:

– Implement a Search & Replace functionality in Gutenberg like the one available in TinyMCE.
– WP-CLI support for Gutenberg Search & Replace

[karmatosed]

I really like the idea of a solid search and replace. I do think to start this would be best explored in a plugin, I say that as then it could be iterated. As the project moves into collaborative editing, I think having a strong search and replace makes solid sense, which even more bolsters the need to explore this.

Let me put up some feedback labels though to get other's input.

[enriquesanchez]

This issue was discussed today during the Design team's triage meeting in Slack (registration required).

We agreed this could be a handy feature to have, and think it would be great to see explored first as a plugin.

[fransonwu]

I like this idea too. how to contribute for this idea?

[camya]

Today is the 2nd anniversary of this feature request! 🥳

I still think, this is could be an important feature for the block editor.

[sebas77]

+1