Use grep search to strip shortcodes from content – for cleaning up from Visual Composer, etc. - Cacher Snippet

6/5/2017 - 11:08 PM

Use grep search to strip shortcodes from content – for cleaning up from Visual Composer, etc.

Use grep search to strip shortcodes from content – for cleaning up from Visual Composer, etc.

strip-shortcodes

// from https://www.kirstencassidy.com/cleaning-up-formatting-shortcodes/

Export contents of wp_posts.

Open .sql file in BBEdit.

Find-All (with grep turned on) this string:
\[(.*?)\]

Replace with nothing.

Back in phpMyAdmin, DROP wp_posts table. Then import the edited .sql file.