vBulletin Manual - Find and Replace in Templates

Use the Styles & Templates > Search in Templates > Find and Replace in Templates feature if you have a lot of templates in one or more styles that has text that you wish to have replaced. This could save you quite some time.

Warning:

Replacing strings in templates could result in errors if you do not know what you are doing. This is an action that can not be undone, so please be aware that you should look twice before applying a find and replace on templates. Adviced is to run a test first.

Search in Style
Select the style in which you want to search. You can select to search in all the styles or just one.
Search for Text
Enter the string of text you want to search for. This search string is case sensitive. The search will find any words / phrases containing the string you enter here. For example, if you search for "bullet" the search will find "vbulletin", "bullets", etc.
Replace with Text
Enter a replacement string here. This string will be substituted in for all instances of the search string above.
For example, if you search for "bullet" and your replacement string is "carrot" then "vbulletin" would become "vcarrotin".
Test Replacement Only
Select no if you are really sure you wish to replace found strings in a template. It is adviced to run a test replacement first. Running a test replacement first will show the result of doing this find/replace, without actually updating the templates.
Use Regular Expressions
The regular expression option is for advanced users only! Setting this option to 'yes' will use preg_replace() instead of str_replace() for your find/replace operation. Do not use this option if you are not sure how to use PCRE regular expressions!