Title: Does this plugin work with WordPress 7.0? Last modified: June 24, 2026 --- # Does this plugin work with WordPress 7.0? * Resolved [Scott Anderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/room34alt/) * (@room34alt) * [2 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-work-with-wordpress-7-0/) * I’m helping a client migrate away from a site that was built by someone else with WP Bakery. I just imported all of their blog posts and found they’re full of WP Bakery’s layout shortcodes. * I installed this plugin to see if it might at least prevent those shortcodes from displaying on the front end of the site while we clean things up, but it doesn’t seem to be having any effect at all. The posts are still full of `[vc_row]` type shortcodes. * I ran the scanner utility on the admin side and it returns almost immediately with nothing found. * I’m wondering from the plugin description, does it leave these in because there’s content in between the opening and closing shortcode tags? In other words, is it working as designed and just not the tool to achieve what I’m trying to do? I’d like to keep the legitimate text content inside these shortcode wrappers, and just strip out the shortcodes themselves since they’re not registered when WP Bakery is inactive. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Plugin Author [Tom McFarlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommcfarlin/) * (@tommcfarlin) * [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-work-with-wordpress-7-0/#post-18948012) * Thanks for this feedback! The currently functionality of the plugin isn’t geared towards tools like WP Bakery but this is clearly a great use case for it. * I’ll have a feature for this updated in the next version and will release that soon. When the update is live, your dashboard should give you a notification but I’ll also update this thread when it’s released. * Thread Starter [Scott Anderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/room34alt/) * (@room34alt) * [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-work-with-wordpress-7-0/#post-18948017) * Thanks! And apologies for the inaccurate subject line… I started writing this post and realized what the problem probably was halfway through, but didn’t update the subject to reflect that. * Plugin Author [Tom McFarlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommcfarlin/) * (@tommcfarlin) * [1 week, 3 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-work-with-wordpress-7-0/#post-18951169) * I’ve updated the plugin both to cover your case and for some improved WP7.0 compatibility. Let me know how this works out for you. * Thread Starter [Scott Anderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/room34alt/) * (@room34alt) * [1 week, 3 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-work-with-wordpress-7-0/#post-18951179) * I updated the plugin on the affected site and checked out a few posts, and it seems to be working great. Thanks so much for taking my feature suggestion and implementing it so quickly! As a plugin developer myself, I really try to stay on top of users’ support requests, so I really appreciate your attention to this. I hope you have great success with this plugin! * Thread Starter [Scott Anderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/room34alt/) * (@room34alt) * [1 week, 3 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-work-with-wordpress-7-0/#post-18951213) * Ah… actually, one thing I just noticed: the change is working great with the full content on the single post, but I’m still seeing the shortcodes in the excerpts. * Plugin Author [Tom McFarlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommcfarlin/) * (@tommcfarlin) * [1 week, 3 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-work-with-wordpress-7-0/#post-18951218) * This is a great feedback; I’ll work on this sometime in the coming week. I will let you know when it’s released. Thanks! * Plugin Author [Tom McFarlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommcfarlin/) * (@tommcfarlin) * [1 week, 2 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-work-with-wordpress-7-0/#post-18952548) * The latest release, 1.2.0, should handle this case (along with some minor improvements behind the scenes, too). * Thread Starter [Scott Anderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/room34alt/) * (@room34alt) * [1 week, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-work-with-wordpress-7-0/#post-18953446) * It’s working, thanks! * Strangely, even though 1.2.0 is showing as the current version here in the repository, my site was not picking it up in the updater — I even waited a day to see if it would catch up — so I had to download it manually. I wonder what that’s about. * Plugin Author [Tom McFarlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommcfarlin/) * (@tommcfarlin) * [1 week, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-work-with-wordpress-7-0/#post-18953499) * WP.org is holding automatic updates for a short time (they do this after major releases) which is why you weren’t seeing it in the auto-updater. That functionality will automatically restore (in 3 hours from the time this message is being written:). * Thread Starter [Scott Anderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/room34alt/) * (@room34alt) * [1 week, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-work-with-wordpress-7-0/#post-18953519) * Hmm, yeah weird. The process seems to be in flux at the moment. Last week I released an update to one of my plugins and it wasn’t showing up at all, so I released another update to try to force it (thinking I had maybe messed something up in the check-in), and got a notice in the repository that it was being held for24- hours for review. I see now that another update I just released today showed up in the repository immediately, but the updater on my dev site isn’t picking it up. 🤷‍♂️ Oh well, that’s just how it is right now I guess! 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