Ladysign Dev Blog » modify multiple posts http://www.ladysign-apps.com/blog Girls can code. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:44:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Modify all Wordpress posts for syntax highlighter http://www.ladysign-apps.com/blog/code/wordpress/modify-all-wordpress-posts-for-syntax-highlighter/ http://www.ladysign-apps.com/blog/code/wordpress/modify-all-wordpress-posts-for-syntax-highlighter/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:56:11 +0000 Lee http://www.ladysign-apps.com/blog/?p=903 Difficulty: 3 out of 5 stars
I installed a new syntax highlighter for this blog.
The thing is, with syntax highlighters that they all use their own pr[......]

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I installed a new syntax highlighter for this blog.
The thing is, with syntax highlighters that they all use their own prefix.
For example my previous one used the tags:

<pre lang="php">echo "this"</pre>

My new highlighter plugin uses this:

[code lang="php"]echo "this"[/code

Fine for me to start using this, but how can I modify all my 500 blog posts to the new syntax?
Regex is the answer! What I did is, I first made a database export (sql) from all my wordpress posts in phpMyAdmin.
I saved the sql query to my harddisk, and then opened it with a code editor (PSPad is good for regex).
I replaced all:

//FIND
<pre lang="(.+?)">(.+?)</pre>
//REPLACE
[code lang="$1"]$2[/code

Save the new query on your harddisk, which contains Wordpress post in the new format.
In phpMyAdmin I emptied/truncated the "wp_post", table, so none of the posts where there.
Then I imported the new query, and voila!
My new syntax highlighter is working!

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