Introduction

Replace

ReReplacer - search and replace in your websites output.


ReReplacer is a Joomla! component and system plugin that enables you to replace anything in your Joomla! site’s output with whatever you want.

ReReplacer will search the text (html) of your pages for your search request and replace it with what you have told it to do.
These replacements are on the fly. That means they are not permanent. They are done every time you request a web page in your site.

This gives you great possibilities and power to manipulate the output of your site.

Regular Expressions

You have the ability to use powerful regular expressions to search and replace. This opens up endless possibilities. You can do virtually anything with ReReplacer.

Why use ReReplacer?

You can use ReReplacer for all kinds of stuff like:
    ★ Create your own custom tags ([mytag]some text[/mytag] becomes some text).
    ★ Tweak the output of Joomla! without changing the core joomla or extension files.
    ★ Filter bad words on your site.
    ★ Temporarily hide text from your website, without actually removing it.
    ★ Remove redundant whitespace from your code, making your website load faster.
    ★ Use abbreviations in your content and replace them with the full text (J! becomes Joomla!, COMP becomes My Very Long Company Name®).
    ★ Quickly place whole blocks of text by only typing one word.
Like you can use [stats] and replace it with a piece of Google Statistics code.
Or [footer] to put a fixed bit of text under articles.
You can change the replacement in one place (in ReReplacer) and your whole website is updated!
    ★ etc...

What ReReplacer is NOT!

ReReplacer does not touch your database. The replacements are not permanent. So you cannot use ReReplacer to replace stuff for good. You can use my other extension DB Replacer for that.

It also does not touch the files. You cannot use ReReplacer to replace stuff in the (php) files of your site.


How to use it: https://www.regularlabs.com/rereplacer

This guy is brilliant!



Posted on 25 June 2013
Don't know him, but use several of his extensions and all are SOLID! Just like this one. Great work, great thinking, always works.. and great support!

exellent extension



Posted on 12 June 2013
I use this extension in conjuction with ModulesAnywhere to make a second level dropdownmenu while i am using a separate menu. (Coupled menu)

With a little help from the NoNumber webmaster i could do this.

Very good extension, also very good support!

Simply awesome



Posted on 29 May 2013
Nothing to say except that this extension is awesome as hell and well coded, good job!
This is one extension I really love - it allows you to make on the fly changes. Combine with a few other tools form Peter and others, and you have a lot of power available.
I was desperately looking for a way to put a superscript into an article title for a science website and ReReplacer works perfectly for that. Also works with the FAQ Book extension (titles of the FAQs). Thank you.
It only gets better! I've been using it for almost 5 years and recently needed some advise on how to do some serious tricks to my HikaShop component.



Peter is always open to help from the simpler to the most complex ReReplacing projects.



The component is recommendable even to people like me who stopped coding in the 90s... No matter what the template, the component or whatever extension you are using, where it doesn't reach your needs you can trick it with ReReplacer.



Absolutely recommendable. Support is 11 over 10!

P O W E R F U L !



Posted on 01 March 2013
I purchased the Pifetime Pro package after using this extension and the Advanced Module Manager for a week. This ReReplacer blew me away it is saving us so much work. We used it for a simple task of taking words on our web site and linking them to a page also on our web site. Simple, easy and time consuming without ReReplacer. With ReReplacer you set it up once and then forget about it! It just works.

And, I even got help doing the first one since I did not have a clue what I was doing. Now I feel empowered... that said... learning regular expressions is now HIGH on my To-Do list.

Get this extension. In fact, get them all...

better than rokcandy



Posted on 19 February 2013
Excellent componenent, excellent support. For maximazing its purpose is needed to learn regex :-) Thank you.

Really versatile tool



Posted on 02 January 2013
Issue 1: I needed to customize some joomla output without touching core files.

Solution: ReReplacer.



Issue 2: I needed to translate some repetitive multilingual phrases for couple hundreds of properties

without entering translations manually for each language for each property.

Solution: ReReplacer with its integrated RegEx functionality + custom language files + quick help from developer



Issue 3: I needed to replace some article text with PHP code.

Solution: ReReplacer with Sourcerer plugin, developed by same author.



Pros:

- very versatile and helpful tool for everyone who needs to squeeze more from Joomla

- it's updated regulary

- fast and solid help from developer

- it can be combinied with Sourcerer plugin to extend it's functionality even further



Cons:

- none



Conclusion: Thank you Peter for this awesome tool :)

Saving time extraordinary



Posted on 07 December 2012
thanks to this component and a little thought it is very easy to change the text that you want, for example, or something very complicated without him, do not load js on any part of your site. Well this component is simply awesome. Bravo. Not to mention the support pro version, the developer is super responsive.
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ReReplacer

Version:
14.5.11
Developer:
Regular Labs
Last updated:
Jan 21 2026
1 month ago
Date added:
Mar 12 2008
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
c p
Compatibility:
J4 J5 J6
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