Easiest way to convert a word or phrase to a tiddler link throughout the wiki?

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Petri M.

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Mar 17, 2022, 10:08:52 AM3/17/22
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What would be a good way of "linkifying" a phrase or a word throughout the entire Wiki? In essense I would like to convert all specific phrases, e.g. John Doe, into a link [[John Doe]]. I have done this previously manually or by opening the wiki in a text editor and using search and replace but it is kinda tedious and I would like to find a better way. Any ideas?

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Mark S.

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Mar 17, 2022, 10:28:37 AM3/17/22
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The official plugin "Freelinks" will make any text that matches an existing tiddler into a link.

PMario

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Mar 17, 2022, 6:02:58 PM3/17/22
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On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 3:28:37 PM UTC+1 Mark S. wrote:
The official plugin "Freelinks" will make any text that matches an existing tiddler into a link.

That's right. Since 5.2.0 it also has a setting, that allows you to define a filter, for which tiddlers it is active. So you could say `[tag[xyz]]` in the "Target tiddler" filter in the setting of the plugins. The plugin can be installed with the ControlPanel.

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Petri M.

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Mar 18, 2022, 11:34:42 AM3/18/22
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Oh that sounds exactly what I need. Thank you!

Petri M.

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Mar 21, 2022, 10:58:46 AM3/21/22
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Unfortunately the plugin makes my wiki super slow so I do not think I can use it. I probably need to install the Commander plugin or somesuch and use that to search-and-replace the parts I need to.

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