I have a website with a lot of

[mybutton]click here[/mybutton] 

or

[mybutton]click there[/mybutton]

in editor. I need to add a function to create a href from this shortcodes. Closing of shortcode is a problem for me. How can i do it?

I have a website with a lot of

[mybutton]click here[/mybutton] 

or

[mybutton]click there[/mybutton]

in editor. I need to add a function to create a href from this shortcodes. Closing of shortcode is a problem for me. How can i do it?

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To change the functionality of a shortcode you must first remove_shortcode( 'shortcode_name' ); where shortcode name is the name of the shortcode. Add the shortcode back with your NEW function.

A simple example to follow what you might be needing:

    remove_shortcode( 'mybutton' );
    add_shortcode( 'mybutton', 'my_shortcode_function' );

    my_shortcode_function( $atts, $content = "" ) {
        return '<a href="http://example">' . $content . '</a>';
    }

That is a short code not HTML you can put any Attribute there, if you want that function got to your page builder and insert a text editor and to html editor and create a button so you can put any attribute you want in it.