I have quite a few times needed to replace strings in my blog’s Db. One simple example is when I changed my blog address and all the URLs to the images were hardcoded. So, I had to go into the db and change the URLs from http://www.nalinmakar.com/blog to http://www.nalinmakar.com. Anyways, so a simple way of doing this is to goto the table that you want to use and open the SQL query interface. Run the following query:
UPDATE tableName SET columnName = REPLACE(columnName, oldString, newString)
so, in my case, I went into the wp_posts table and ran the following query:
UPDATE `wp_posts` SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, “http://www.nalinmakar.com/blog”, “http://www.nalinmakar.com/”)
pretty neat… huh ??
it actually is very neat and cool! thanks!