Title: Plugin Breaks the_content
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin Breaks the_content

 *  [alexisouest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexisouest/)
 * (@alexisouest)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-the_content/)
 * PLugin used to work fine – now it conflicts with the_content, and doesn’t display
   the content when the plugin is activated
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-pro/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-pro/)

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 *  [johnenxada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnenxada/)
 * (@johnenxada)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-the_content/#post-4726060)
 * Did you find a solution to this?. I am experiencing the same problem.
 * Plugin author doesn’t respond/care anymore. Can anyone troubleshoot and fix it,
   please?
 *  [Jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ijas0n/)
 * (@ijas0n)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-the_content/#post-4726063)
 * I had this same problem and was getting this error on the page:
 * `PHP Warning: preg_replace_callback(): Compilation failed: missing opening brace
   after \o at offset 45 in …/wp-content/plugins/shortcodes-pro/inc/class-shortcodespro-
   base.php on line 57`
 * I found if you open the that file referenced and change this:
    `$pattern = '~\[
   do action\=\"[^\"]*\"\s?[^\]\/]*\]( [^\[\d\o\n]* )\[\/do\]~';`
 * to this:
 * `$pattern = '~\[do action\=\"[^\"]*\"\s?[^\]\/]*\]( [^\[\do\n]* )\[\/do\]~';`
 * It seemed to fix the issue. Hopefully the plugin author can address this. I believe
   this has to do with compatibility with MySQL 5.6
 *  [Ben B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/generik99/)
 * (@generik99)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-the_content/#post-4726064)
 * It’s not MySQL, but rather the recent PHP version updates that causes the scripting
   error on line 56. Soon as my host updated to 5.4.31 a couple weeks ago, the error
   surfaced.
 * It likely affects all the recent PHP releases including the latest — 5.3.29, 
   5.4.32, 5.5.16 and 5.6.0. The plugin hasn’t been updated since October 2012, 
   there was bound to be an incompatibility at some point.
 *  [psteinweber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psteinweber/)
 * (@psteinweber)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-the_content/#post-4726065)
 * [@jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason/)
    That helped a ton and fixed
   it for me (including the nested shortcode hack mentioned somewhere else in the
   forums). Thanks a lot!

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