Title: Shortcode in text
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Shortcode in text

 *  [Lionear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbonk/)
 * (@rbonk)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-in-text/)
 * When you have shortcodes in the text and using an replace of text in it then 
   it goes wrong.
 * The [] are not beeing ignored like the <> are.
 * I changed line 233 in linkify-text.php to:
 * `$text = preg_replace("|(?![<\[].*?)\b$old_text\b(?![^<>]*?[\]>])|$preg_flags",
   $new_text, $text, $limit );`
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/linkify-text/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/linkify-text/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-in-text/)
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