Can use to Update a Post?

I see that I can use the Shortcode add-on to use the [preplace] function; however, the doc says “In order for Postie to know which post to replace your email subject must match the post title exactly.”
So I have many posts with the same Post Title i.e. Mary Smith. But they would have different slugs i.e mary-smith and mary-smith-2.
How would this work? is it Post Title only? How would it differentiate?
Or is it post slug?
Thanks in advance.

Hi, so I’m testing this out more and I see I can update Category and probably actual post content, but it will not update postmeta when using the [preplace]. Upon post creation, I can use [pcustom name=phone value=”7025551212″] and it will populate the postmeta just fine, but if I change that, or any other postmeta field, it does not update. Only the Post Category (contained in the Subject) will update. I don’t use post_content, so that i have not tested, but I’m sure it would work. What I need is the postmeta updated.

Am I missing something, or is the limitation of the plugin?

Any chance that I could see the preplace match to the post_id or post_slug in the subject as well as having postmeta update as well?

I know it sounds weird and I could use REST API, but then I would have to expose my servers and I don’t want to do that.

Semper Fi!

There is an update to the shortcode plug coming soon that should address these issues.

Thank you!