Find shortcodes for inactive plugins?

  • Resolved nathaningram

    (@nathaningram)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hello, I was testing your plugin for inclusion in the iThemes Plugin Roundup for March 2018. I love the idea of your plugin. I think it will be a real help for WP users.

    However, it appears that the plugin only searches for shortcodes registered by active plugins. It found, for example, a gallery shortcode registered by the theme, but it didn’t find a Gravity Forms shortcode on a page because Gravity Forms wasn’t active at the time. When I activate Gravity forms, the shortcode is found as expected.

    While this is really cool functionality, one frequent way I believe people would use the plugin would be to scan a website for shortcodes that are no longer in use (plugin has been deleted).

    Is that a feature you could possibly support?

    Thanks again for your work here!

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  • Plugin Author Scribit

    (@scribit)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hello Nathan and thanks for contact us with this great news!

    Regarding your observation I confirm that you cannot search the shortcodes into content if the plugin that provide them is not active. The plugin actually search only into registered WordPress shortcodes because it cannot be sure of a shortcode syntax into content if it is not registered.

    I understand that the plugin functionality will increase if I add this feature.
    Maybe I could add a page to find the posts that “probably” contains a shortcode in the next release.
    it could be a good idea for you?

    Thanks again

    Thread Starter nathaningram

    (@nathaningram)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    I think that would be a good alternate solution, yes!

    Here’s a real use case where this could have been helpful to me personally… In my client work I was recently moving a site that was created using Visual Composer into Beaver Builder. Visual Composer uses a ridiculous amount of shortcodes to render content. Having a plugin that could scan the large site to find any occurrences of the shortcodes we missed would have been very helpful. We ended up using phpMyAdmin, but your solution would have been much simpler.

    Thanks again for your work here. We will feature the plugin today at 1pm central on the Plugin Roundup webinar.

    Plugin Author Scribit

    (@scribit)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hello Nathan. We’ve seen your presentation of the best plugins in march last day. Thanks again.

    I want to inform you that version 1.2(.2) of Shortcode finder has been released today with the feature you suggested. Now you will have a page to show the unused shortcodes, coming from inactive or deleted plugins.

    I hope you will use it and leave a review on the plugin 😉

    Thread Starter nathaningram

    (@nathaningram)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    YES! That’s perfect. I love how you integrated the “Find Unused Shortcodes” option. The plugin was great before, but this addition will make it even more useful!

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