[Plugin: Network Latest Posts] Feed does not remove [] sortcodes

Hi,

Are you using version 3.1.5 of Network Latest Posts? If so, is that “vc_gallery” plugin active?

If you’re using the latest version it shouldn’t be displaying those tags unless that gallery plugin isn’t being registered as a shortcode or tag and WordPress don’t recognize it as such, or it’s being escaped.

I just tested with my own plugin, here you can see the post: Testing Excerpt Strips

[nlposts title=’Testing Excerpt Strips’ title_only=false] Hi, this is the content, when extracting excerpts the shortcode inserted before this line should be stripped, this is a proof NLPosts is working as expected.

And here under number 1 the results: Displaying Excerpts

TESTING EXCERPT STRIPS
Hi, this is the content, when extracting excerpts the shortcode inserted before this line should be stripped, this is a proof NLPosts is working as …more

Finally, if you are displaying the vc_gallery shortcode as an example of usage like this: [[vg_gallery title=”fruits:” type=”flexslider_fade” interval=”3″]] it WON’T be stripped, this is because double square brackets are used to escape shortcodes and WordPress will recognize that line as a text string.

Hi, I’m going to do some tests to see what’s happening with that plugin. As soon as I find a solution I’ll post it here.

Ok, it’s fixed, or I think so, I’ve just uploaded the new version, it will be available in a minute or so. Apparently there exists an issue between Visual Composer and strip_shortcodes WordPress hook which makes imposible to strip shortcodes generated by this plugin.

I solved the issue replacing the strip_shortcodes hook by a regex, if someone looks for a similar solution, here’s what I did:

I was stripping shortcodes and tags using this line:

$content = strip_tags(strip_shortcodes($content));

Which works for almost every kind of shortcode and tag I can imagine, but for some reason it didn’t work with Visual Composer shortcodes, so I replaced that line by these two:

$content = preg_replace("/\[(.*?)\]/i", '', $content);
$content = strip_tags($content);

And that’s it, the first line removes everything between square brackets (shortcodes) and the second one strip tags.

I’m marking this topic as resolved, feel free to change it if v3.1.6 doesn’t solve your issue.

Cheers.