Shortcodes Finder
Shortcodes Finder
Description
Shortcodes Finder helps you to:
* Find every shortcode (by tag or content type) present in your WordPress posts, pages and custom type contents
* Search unused shortcodes
* Disable active or unused/orphan shortcodes
* Test your shortcodes before use them in your website
* Search shortcode in all multisite network contents
Installation
From your WordPress dashboard
- Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
- Search for ‘Shortcodes Finder’
- Activate the plugin from your Plugins page.
From WordPress.org
- Download Shortcodes Finder zip file
- Unzip it
- Upload the unzipped directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin from your Plugins page.
Screenshots
Search specific shortcode or see all the shortcodes working in your website. The plugin gives you a rapid access to contents, test page or shortcode documentation.
Find every shortcode divided by content page. You can search into Posts, Pages and every custom content type used in your website.
Get a rapid view to all unused Shortcode. With plugin you will be able to disable them with one click.
For each shortcode found by plugin you can test it, defining parameters and showing directly the result.
The documentation page helps you to find the shortcode source file, classes and available parameters.
From settings page you can disable orphan/unused shortcodes with one click or disable active shortcodes one by one.
Reviews
Works nicely
By 
Installed. Found the shortcodes I was looking for. Nice work! Thanks Scribit.
Very useful, a great tool for site builders
By 
Clean, attractive user interface. Quite fast even on my Windows sandbox. Found every instance of every shortcode, including the one I was looking for 🙂
To use the "Find by Shortcode" option, I needed to increase PHP's memory_limit to 1G, but that is not a problem.
WOW!
By 
I use a lot of shortcodes, some of which I author myself. I just loaded [Shortcodes Finder ]and voila, here are all of my site's shortcodes, which can be handily filtered if desired. The finder also lists other important and salient information about each short code. I'm definitely going to throw some $ in the author's direction. Well worth it.
Help me a lot to find the shortcode.
By 
Help me a lot to find the shortcode in the theme which was not customizable by any builder.
but by finding the shortcode in theme files i was able to customize as i want to
Excellent
By 
Very clean and useful plugin. Thanks you!
Excellent
By 
Very useful, extremely easy to use and efficient. Thanks!
HUGE Help
By 
Several years ago I started using a "visual page builder". You just couldn't create complex pages that fast and easy without one. The time and effort to write the html/css was just not worth it. Fast forward to Gutenberg and my slow, clunky page builder became obsolete. I started the meticulous task of removing short-codes and editing hundreds of pages. As I came across them-I would fix them, hoping one day-I would get all of them-but how would I know for sure? Then I came across this plugin and gave it a shot. Glad I did! It easily found hundreds of short-codes with a link to each post/page. It took me a few days-but I just finished removing the last one. I was so impressed I came here to write a review. This plugin is just great. If you need to find/remove/edit short-codes, there is nothing better. Just perfect.
Did exactly what was on the box!
By 
The plugin did exactly what it advertised! It didn't take over the menu (having a top level menu!), it was hidden under the "Tools" menu where it should be. +1 to the devs of this plugin.
So, so handy.
By 
Brilliant plugin. Thanks so much for providing to all us WordPress users.
Works as intended
By 
The plugin works as intended, and as of the latest version (1.5.2) it also works with weForms. I've left my old review below in case anyone encounters the same problem, but this problem has no longer occurred on the latest version, so everything is working as intended.
The author was very responsive in dealing with my concerns (as you can see from our exchange below), and even took the extra step to add support for weForms. A well-deserved 5 stars.
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The text below is my old review (before 1.5.2) and is left up only in case anyone else encounters the issue. The plugins, today, works as intended.
Right after installation, this plugin caused WordPress to generate an infinite 302 redirect loop for any logged-in user trying to access the admin dashboard.
The front-end worked fine. None of the admin pages were accessible.
The infinite redirect loop caused the page to never load, making the browser show an error because it realizes it's never going to end.
Removing the files of this plugin via FTP or other external method fixed the problem.
It may be due to an incompatibility with another plugin (most plugins installed are well-known ones like WooCommerce, LifterLMS, WP Fastest Cache, Rank Math SEO, Redis Object Cache). Either way, it shouldn't be doing this.
Adapting the following code in the file shortcodes-finder/admin/class-shortcodes-finder-admin.php:
if ( is_admin() && get_option( 'activated_plugin' ) == SHORTCODES_FINDER_PLUGIN_SLUG ) {
delete_option( 'activated_plugin' );
exit( wp_redirect( admin_url( 'tools.php?page='. SHORTCODES_FINDER_PLUGIN_SLUG ) ) );
}to:
if ( is_admin() && get_option( 'activated_plugin' ) == SHORTCODES_FINDER_PLUGIN_SLUG ) {
delete_option( 'activated_plugin' );
//exit( wp_redirect( admin_url( 'tools.php?page='. SHORTCODES_FINDER_PLUGIN_SLUG ) ) );
}which disables the redirect, also fixed the problem.
After enabling, a second concern shows up: Although it recognizes some shortcodes (like LifterLMS and WooCommerce), it does not suggest the shortcode for weForms. "Find by Content" does find the used weForms shortcodes, but also lists all other shortcodes on all pages.
Two stars since applying my manual edit makes the plugin run, and although it doesn't recognize weForms shortcodes it does help to eventually get there (with false positives) via "Find by Content".
Changelog
1.6.1
- Fixed blocking error in some cases of unused shortcodes search
- WordPress 6.8.1 compatibility
- Minor graphic changes
1.6.0
- Search shortcodes in not public custom post types (e.g. Visual composer post types, Divi templates, etc.)
- Added results count in search by single shortcode
- Improved unused shortcodes search
- Removed some false positives in unused shortocodes page
- Increased success rate of loading shortcode parameters in the documentation page (checkbox for parameters loading has been kept for security reasons)
- Imporoved escaping
- Removed deprecated warnings for PHP >= 8.2
- WordPress 6.6.2 compatibility
- Minor graphic changes
1.5.6
- Changed escaping data methods
- WordPress 6.4.3 compatibility
1.5.5
- Fixed reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability
- WordPress 6.4.2 compatibility
1.5.4
- Fixed reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability
- WordPress 6.4.1 compatibility
- Corrected Post/Page labels in Find by shortcode page
1.5.3
- WordPress 6.3.1 compatibility
- URLs escaped
- Corrected URLs for multisite installations
- Corrected TablePress compatibility
1.5.2
- WordPress 6.1 compatibility
- WeForms compatibility
1.5.1
- SRP optimizations
- Bug on plugin origin search fixed
- sf_version option removed on plugin uninstall
- Images compressed
1.5.0
- WordPress multisite search support
- WordPress 6.0 compatibility
- PHP 8 compatibility
- Changed style of unused shortcode results
- Corrected shortcodes order in settings page
- Minor changes
1.4.8
- WordPress 5.9 compatibility
- Graphic and icons changes
1.4.7
- WordPress 5.8 compatibility
1.4.6
- WordPress 5.7 compatibility
- Link to other Scribit plugins in About page
1.4.5
- Speed improvements (JS/CSS loading)
- Plugin webpage changed
- Font Awesome icons replaced by Dashicons
- Minor changes
1.4.4
- Redirect to plugin page after activation
- WordPress 5.6 compatibility
1.4.3
- Redirect to plugin page after activation
- WordPress 5.5 compatibility
1.4.2
- Added an option to search shortcodes in draft, future, pending and private contents
- Replaced old guid links with permalinks
- WordPress 5.4.2 compatibility
1.4.1
- Added an option to search for shortcodes parameters into documentation page
- Speeded up documentation page
- Link to shortcode uses from documentation page
- Hidden extra contents during documentation page searches
1.4.0
- Documentation page: get information about shortcodes (source file, class and parameters) – Thanks to @luxxor
- Removed unnecessary frontend js/css calls
- Excluded some false positive unused shortcodes
- Used Font Awesome icons instead of images
- WordPress 5.4.1 compatibility
- TablePress compatibility
- New screenshots in plugin documentation
1.3.0
- Settings page
- Disable all unused/orphan shortcodes
- Disable selected active shortcodes
- WordPress 5.3.2 compatibility
- Minor changes
1.2.10
- Fix multi accordion for same shortcode in unused shortcodes tab
- Fix copy to clipboard function
1.2.9
- Ajax search for website with a lot of contents
- Graphic improvements
- Code refactoring
1.2.8
- Search into contents for a specific shortcode
- Minor changes
1.2.7
- WordPress 5.2 compatibility
- Visual Composer (WP Bakery page builder) compatibility
- “Copy to clipboard” function for tested shortcodes
- Italian language
- Minor changes
1.2.6
- WordPress 5.1 compatibility
- Bugfixes
- Minor changes
1.2.5
- Recursivity to find many shortcode occurrences
1.2.4
- WordPress 5.0 compatibility
- Bugfixes
1.2.3
- Security improvements
1.2.x
- Graphic improvements
- Minor changes
1.2.0
- Added the Unused Shortcodes page
- Shortcode counter
- Bugfixes
1.1.x
- Bugfixes
1.1.0
- Custom post types shortcodes view
- Trimmed long contents inside shortcode preview
1.0.1
- Correction on parameters passing to test page
- Textarea instead of input field for test content
1.0.0
- First plugin version