Title: Find shortcode references in posts?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Find shortcode references in posts?

 *  [Agrajag27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agrajag27/)
 * (@agrajag27)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/find-shortcode-references-in-posts/)
 * I have a plugin that I’m wanting to retire. It uses a very handy shortcode that
   we used in a few key places and those references I was able to find and convert
   over to a new shortcode that I wrote that’s more specific to our needs.
 * However, I suspect I used this code in a few odd posts and now can’t find any
   way to find those posts. The concern is that I’ll remove the plugin and then 
   break those posts.
 * How can I find out which posts contain those very specific shortcode references?

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 *  [Radu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kthemes/)
 * (@kthemes)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/find-shortcode-references-in-posts/#post-4307067)
 * You could use a plugin like: [http://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/)
   to search for your shortcode.
    You will find the id of the post containing this
   shortcode and then you can manually edit those posts.
 * BE CAREFUL not to search & replace. Just search
 * Let me know how it went
 *  Thread Starter [Agrajag27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agrajag27/)
 * (@agrajag27)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/find-shortcode-references-in-posts/#post-4307099)
 * I tried and it came up empty for some reason. I actually have that plugin.
 * Oddly I did find a solution! The default Search function of the site found the
   references without any issue. Go figure! The Admin search came up empty as did
   the plugin search but yet the normal search could find it.
 * Thanks.
 *  [Radu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kthemes/)
 * (@kthemes)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/find-shortcode-references-in-posts/#post-4307129)
 * Super cool! Glad you have your problem solved.
 * Cheers!

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/find-shortcode-references-in-posts/#post-4307129)
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