Title: Search and Replace Shortcode
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Search and Replace Shortcode

 *  Resolved [JacquiG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacquig/)
 * (@jacquig)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-and-replace-shortcode/)
 * I’ve used your plug-in before and had great success – thank you. I’m having a
   bit of a problem now though that I’m hoping someone can help with.
 * I want to replace some short code and my searches are returning results for every
   character indivdually. I put quotes around and it returns nothing. I haven’t 
   been able to locate any instructions of how I might format the search.
 * Any help is appreciated. Thanks…
    Jacqueline
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Frank Bueltge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bueltge/)
 * (@bueltge)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-and-replace-shortcode/#post-3959974)
 * Not easy, the plugin dont support regex. You can only search with the global 
   search on the first area and replace the strings. Alternative write a custom 
   plugin, that replace the shortcode.
 *  [Dinesh Kesharwani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberwani/)
 * (@cyberwani)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-and-replace-shortcode/#post-3960015)
 * Hi Frank,
 * Please see this link:
    [http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/](http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/)
 * This tool have support for serialized data. It may help.
 * If this plugin have serialized data support, it will be superb.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frank Bueltge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bueltge/)
 * (@bueltge)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-and-replace-shortcode/#post-3960016)
 * Yes, I know this tool and I like it. It is free and usable, a point more for 
   me, to don’t support this old plugin. The tool have a other structure, not easy
   to implement in this old plugin. The plugin was with a other focus.

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 * Last reply from: [Frank Bueltge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bueltge/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-and-replace-shortcode/#post-3960016)
 * Status: resolved