Site Upgrade to Gutenberg “recipe”

  • Many websites that I support are small businesses which I helped get going circa 2011-2012. These sites have have a LOT of content and, frequently, have used shortcodes to render content hosted elsewhere, such as their private AWS accounts.

    Because clients have not been ready to “deal” with Gutenberg, I have manually overridden updates to WordPress core so we can consciously decide when we want to evaluate the impacts of this update and develop strategies that require minimal intervention.

    We tested an upgrade on one such site over the weekend. This site has been using Easy Video Player (EVP) to render training videos hosted on Amazon S3. The EVP software generates code for each video and we’ve been using EmbedIt to place that code in a custom field, later adding that shortcode to the post/page where the video is to play.

    The “good news” is that the Classic Editor plugin brought back the custom fields. The “bad news” is that the formerly functional shortcode failed, even after resaving the post. The only way to make it work again was to recreate the custom field. That’s unacceptable from a time point of view.

    I’ve scanned the internet and found a few snippets to address migration of shortcodes to Gutenberg blocks. Feedback on those posts exposes varying results and many struggles.

    What is the best advice from this forum for migrating shortcode content to a Gutenberg block without having to touch each page/post to recreate it using the Gutenberg shortcode function?

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  • Thread Starter Marj Wyatt

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    There are more plugins that require shortcodes than EVP and EmbedIt, both of which may be more obscure to the general public.

    Off the top of my head, I can think of two plugins for which I own developer licenses that have employed shortcodes in posts/pages to render that content. Those two are Gravity Forms and Soliloquy.

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