Title: Feature request: shortcode substitution
Last modified: January 29, 2020

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# Feature request: shortcode substitution

 *  Resolved [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-shortcode-substitution/)
 * Hey anmari,
    I have come across a couple of forum topics lately that are about
   needing to change shortcodes, either for exporting content with galleries using
   the correct new IDs or switching to a new plugin with a different shortcode or
   wanting to update legacy content to look more like blocks (again with the galleries).
   What people seem to need is a plugin that can find all their shortcodes and either
   expand them to HTML to replace the shortcode or change the name of the shortcode.
   I know the name change can be done with a Search/Replace plugin, but getting 
   the parameters all correct wouldn’t really be something to do manually. I’m not
   sure about the galleries using IDs that change when importing to another site…
 * Anyway, this content manipulation aspect seemed like a natural extension for 
   this plugin that already deals with all the shortcodes.
    Joy

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 *  Plugin Author [anmari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anmari/)
 * (@anmari)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-shortcode-substitution/#post-12584827)
 * Thanks Joy, however i imagine the same problems with parameters would arise which
   ever way one tried to do it. Plugins with similar features tend to work differently
   so writing code to generically do this would basically end up being some kind
   of search & replace code anyway.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-shortcode-substitution/#post-12584827)
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