Need help on removing links in WP blog

Hi,

I have an old wordpress blog i bought some time ago but never had the chance to tinker with. It is PR3 but every post has multiple links to external sites which i want to remove. There are around 600+ posts so is there a plugin or any method short of removing the links one by one, post by post?

Cheers,

Kahthan

I'm not sure if there's a plugin for that but what I can suggest you is this:

1. Export all your blog posts (there's a feature in the CP for that)
2. Open the exported file in your favourite editor (I use Notepad++ for such things - works wonders)
3. Filter out lines that contain the phrase "http://" and work your way through the file
4. Import the modified file, overwriting all your posts

If it's 600+ posts then it can be a lot of hassle but probably doable in a couple of hours.

thanks ill try that, ideally if notepadd++ can do wildcard based search and replace im sorted, any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

cheers

kahthan

Just do an SQL query on all the posts.

This is what you looking for work great for me.... http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/
i use to replace keywords,links what ever you deisire...enjoy

kahthan said:

thanks ill try that, ideally if notepadd++ can do wildcard based search and replace im sorted, any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

cheers

kahthan

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