Stripping Shortcodes on Homepage Sections

Not sure what the intention of this was – but within the homepage sections you’ve written your own custom content filter, which is stripping out short code support.

A user reported an issue with our plugin, but after some bug hunting we were able to track it back to your theme – and a few functions you have written to generate the content on the front end (specifically on the homepage).

I’m not sure if this is a marketing ploy to try and upsell users to a pro vesion, or if you really just don’t want users to enter shortcodes on the homepage – but it seems to be causing some issues where users can not parse shortcodes inside of the WordPress editor of the homepage theme options sections.

Offending Function:
skt_white_the_content_format( $content );

Additional helper functions:

// get_the_content format text
function skt_white_get_the_content_format( $str ){
     $raw_content = apply_filters( 'skt_white_the_content', $str );
     $content = str_replace( ']]>', ']]>', $raw_content );
     return $content;
}

// the_content format text
function skt_white_the_content_format( $str ){
     echo skt_white_get_the_content_format( $str );
}

If anyone else comes across this and is looking to provide shortcode support inside of the homepage content areas, simply alter skt_white_get_the_content_format() to the following:

// get_the_content format text
function skt_white_get_the_content_format( $str ){
     return apply_filters( 'skt_white_the_content', $str );
}

Inside of functions.php, around line #236.

Pro Tip: Before you buy any theme, I would do some form of code audit (or at least research the author) – to ensure what you are paying for is up to date with the latest code standards and secure.

Evan