Title: Replacing shortcodes in database?
Last modified: December 16, 2021

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# Replacing shortcodes in database?

 *  [jyriii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jyriii/)
 * (@jyriii)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-shortcodes-in-database/)
 * Hello
 * Is there a smooth way to replace all old shortcodes with new ones in database?
   I mean a script or tool that does it by following some pattern or else. Replacing
   them one by one with search-replace can take too long in current case, as there
   is a lot of different icons in use and the full set of icons used is unknown.
 * I know about the backward compatibility setting, it works with it right now, 
   but I prefer to update all shortcodes inserted with the plugin version 1.7 and
   earlier.
 * Thanks

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