replace

We’re working with a javascript that automatically looks-up an entry in a database if a <span> with a certain class has been placed around a word. Since you don’t want to type <span class=»abc»>entry</span>, we wanted to instead do it with these brackets: {entry}. We created a regular expression to perform the look-up. Other plug-ins would a) replace the contents of the post in the database -> this is not the desired behavior as «<span>»s sometimes get «eaten» by the visual editor b) work for posts, but not for pages c) work for posts, also for pages, but not inside shortcodes -> our theme uses shortcodes for a variety of things, so we needed them. d) completely break the site ___ re.place was the ONLY plug-in out of the 5 we tested that didn’t check any of the above and that ALWAYS worked exactly the way we wanted it to. I highly recommend it!