A great plugin for something that seems like it should be default behavior!

There are a few things WordPress does by default that are a bit of a mystery to me, and one of them is how it will just print unregistered shortcodes directly in the page. I get that it’s not always right to assume that text in square brackets is a shortcode, but it seems like there should be some kind of built-in way to deal with this.

Enter Remove Empty Shortcodes. I’ve built a few plugins like this myself, and I was about to once again, until I came across this plugin. My specific situation is that I’m helping a client migrate away from a site that was built using a certain page builder plugin. Their post content is filled with layout shortcodes from that plugin. Ultimately we are going to need to edit them out, but it’s nice to just have a way to display the posts in the meantime that doesn’t look like absolute garbage, so we can move forward with the migration.

As it happens, this plugin did not initially handle shortcodes that wrapped content, so I submitted a support request, and within a couple of days, the developer had added the feature. So, great plugin, and great support!

• This topic was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by Scott Anderson.