Title: [dropcap]text[/dropcap] help
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# [dropcap]text[/dropcap] help

 *  Resolved [subtire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subtire/)
 * (@subtire)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropcaptextdropcap-help-1/)
 * Hello and thank you for this free plugin!
 * I have a little problem with your plugin on my WordPress…
 * I often use the [dropcap] [/dropcap] function and the plugin seems to skip the
   text inside the tag… Is there any solution for this problem?
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 * <meta property=”og:description” content=” Town Square (Staroměstské náměstí) 
   is the most significant square in Prague and one of the most beautiful squares
   in the world. The square was founded in “/>
 * The word “Old” was inside the tag [dropcap][/dropcap] and it didn’t showed correctly
   on the og:description text…
 * Thanks!
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 *  Plugin Author [Chuck Reynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryno267/)
 * (@ryno267)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropcaptextdropcap-help-1/#post-6081463)
 * Well things get weird with shortcodes and typically those get filtered out as
   there’s a million different ways shortcodes are used – so for safety and not 
   showing the [shortcodename] in the description they get filtered out.
 * You should have a specific description for the page in the SEO plugin which should
   pull into the plugin’s og:description tag. It seems to be relying on reading 
   the content and the shortcode is being filtered out.
 * A more standard way to handle dropcaps/words is to have a css class for them 
   that you’d wrap the letter/word in a span tag.
 * 3rd option is to write an excerpt that the plugin will pull before looking for
   content.
 *  Plugin Author [Chuck Reynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryno267/)
 * (@ryno267)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropcaptextdropcap-help-1/#post-6081464)
 * btw.. nice photos 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [subtire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subtire/)
 * (@subtire)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropcaptextdropcap-help-1/#post-6081510)
 * Hello Chuck and thanks for the reply!
    I wrote about this problem with [dropcap][/
   dropcap] on the support forum for my current WP theme and they gave me a PHP 
   function that resolved the issue because the shortcode skipped the text inside
   the shortcode on the summary of the article on the WP index page…
 * [Here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropcaptextdropcap-help?replies=11)
   is the discussion and the code
 *     ```
       function custom_excerpt($text = '') {
       	$raw_excerpt = $text;
       	if ( '' == $text ) {
       		$text = get_the_content('');
                       // $text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
       		$text = do_shortcode( $text );
       		$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
       		$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
       		$excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', 55);
       		$excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . '[...]');
       		$text = wp_trim_words( $text, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more );
       	}
       	return apply_filters('wp_trim_excerpt', $text, $raw_excerpt);
       }
       remove_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt'  );
       add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'custom_excerpt'  );
       ```
   
 * Can you tell me if this function can help me resolve the issue with your plugin
   and if yes, where can I implement this function to make it work… 🙂
 * Thanks again!
 *  Thread Starter [subtire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subtire/)
 * (@subtire)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropcaptextdropcap-help-1/#post-6081513)
 * It seems that All in One SEO Pack gets the code ok and doesn’t skip the text 
   inside the [dropcap shortcode and I didn’t used the custom field to paste the
   text without the shortcode…
 * I guess that my problem should be solved somewhere here
 *     ```
       function wpfbogp_callback( $content ) {
       	// Grab the page title and meta description
       	$title = preg_match( '/<title>(.*)<\/title>/', $content, $title_matches );
       	$description = preg_match( '/<meta name="description" content="(.*)"/', $content, $description_matches );
   
       	// Take page title and meta description and place it in the ogp meta tags
       	if ( $title !== FALSE && count( $title_matches ) == 2 ) {
       		$content = preg_replace( '/<meta property="og:title" content="(.*)">/', '<meta property="og:title" content="' . $title_matches[1] . '">', $content );
       	}
   
       	if ( $description !== FALSE && count( $description_matches ) == 2 ) {
       		$content = preg_replace( '/<meta property="og:description" content="(.*)">/', '<meta property="og:description" content="' . $description_matches[1] . '">', $content );
       	}
   
       	return $content;
       }
       ```
   
 * I can’t figure out because the <meta name=”description” on my page gets the description
   correctly and the OG plugin skips the text inside the shortcode… even if the 
   function of the plugin tells him to get the OG description from the <meta name
   =”description”…

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 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropcaptextdropcap-help-1/#post-6081513)
 * Status: resolved