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1. EntarteteMuzak
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm trying to remove all short code from post content when I display the post in a search result. As it were, I also use short code in excerpts. I've found this solution, but I can't seem to make it work: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-short-code-from-excerpt?replies=4#post-1924799

   Here is my code (the short code I'm trying to remove is [col-sect] and [column], as used by WP Columnize plugin)

   In functions:
   

   <?php
   add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'remove_columns' );
   function remove_columns( $excerpt ) {
   	return preg_replace ('/\[column[^\]]*\](.*)\[\/column\]/', '$1', $excerpt);
   	return preg_replace ('/\[col-sect[^\]]*\](.*)\[\/col-sect\]/', '$1', $excerpt);
   }?>

   In page:
   <?php remove_filter('the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode') ; add_filter ('the_excerpt', 'remove_columns') ; the_excerpt(); ?>

   I've added a remove filter on do_shortcode to remove the short code function from the excerpt, but that still leaves [col-sect] and [column] in the text. Also it seems that the first and the last occurrence of the [column] is removed but not the rest, while both instances of [col-sect] stays intact.

2. EntarteteMuzak
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Can I use the strip shortcode function?

3. EntarteteMuzak
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Fixed it with this:

   in Functions
   

   <?php
   add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'remove_columns' );
   function remove_columns( $excerpt ) {
   	return preg_replace ("/\[(\S+)\]/e", "", $excerpt);
   }?>

   In template:
   <?php remove_all_shortcodes('the_excerpt') ; the_excerpt(); ?>

   The only thing that ticks me is that the [...] after the excerpt disappears if I use this technique on the excerpt.

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