XF 1.5 Renaming smilies after they've been used in places.

[ShadowTiger]

Hello! Thanks for reading. Got a quick question. Suppose I've been using a whole bunch of well-established smilies for years, and all of a sudden everyone's like "You know, it's a royal pain using these smilies. They have awful names! Let's rename them!"

By that, I mean, it would go from typing :largesmilyfacewithtwoeyes: to just :smile:

So the question is, if all of those smilies were changed, what would happen to past instances of those smilies that have been typed and not clicked-on to be placed? Would all of those past smilies not turn into smilies anymore?

 

[Paul B]

Would all of those past smilies not turn into smilies anymore?

Correct.

You can use this add-on though to update the post content: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-content-find-replace.1549/

Or just run basic queries against the database.