Shortcodes point to prior URL – how can I fix it?

I changed the URL of my self-hosted blog

And how exactly did you do that? By following the instructions in Allow WordPress to take over the root domain?

I installed WordPress on a new server, imported the database and updated the URL settings. I don’t recall all the deatils of the steps because it was a few months ago (and I just never noticed the shortcodes weren’t working), and the tech support people at GoDaddy helped walk me through it. Everything else on the site works fine.

When you moved the site, did you follow the steps in Moving_WordPress?

I think so, but life has been sufficiently chaotic, and it’s long enough ago, that I can’t promise how I did it was 100% by the book. What checks should I do?

What are you using to generate those shortcodes? Are they from your theme or a plugin?

They are the ones generated by core WordPress, I thought. Each post has a “Get Shortcode” – when you hit that you get a wp.me address. That address points to my waylandenews.com/wordpress/*** rather than waylandenews.com/*** so it fails.

That’s not a shortcode per se. It’s a permalink. Sounds like you did not follow all of the steps in Moving_WordPress. You need to carry out a search & replace on your database as outlined in this Codex section. I’d suggest using option 2 but do remember to backup your database before proceeding.

So I tried running “search and replace” using a couple of different plug-ins that are recommended on the support pages – and neither worked. The inteconnectit one failed on “step 5” and the Frank Bültge Search & Replace one failed as well. Perhaps my database exceeds their capacity? Very frustrating. Is there one particular spot in the database I could go and manually edit the setting?