[Plugin: Promotion Slider] Featured Image is missing & Showing [raw] tags on page

I know this is an older topic, but I feel the need to jump in here. This is probably not a problem with the plugin – my opinion is that this is a problem with the theme. Other plugins can cause the theme to have the same issues with [raw] tags showing up around all their shortcodes.

In my case, the plugin I have installed shows a post’s content using a shortcode, and during this process it runs apply_filters on the_content, which seems to be the issue. The theme’s [raw] tags are implemented using a filter and applying it to the_content. For some reason they do not like it when other plugins run apply_filters on the_content.

I’m still looking for a solution. Right now I am using an if(is_page()) code to remove the raw filters on specific pages and have replaced the theme shortcodes on those pages with the html they output (mainly [hr_shadow]), but this is a messy solution and has its drawbacks.

@micah
Does the promotion slider plugin run apply_filters on the_content anywhere? If so, is their any chance of understanding what causes this incompatibility?

Here is how they implement their raw tags:

function my_formatter($content) {
  $new_content = '';
  $pattern_full = '{(\[raw\].*?\[/raw\])}is';
  $pattern_contents = '{\[raw\](.*?)\[/raw\]}is';
  $pieces = preg_split($pattern_full, $content, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);

  foreach ($pieces as $piece) {
    if (preg_match($pattern_contents, $piece, $matches)) {
       $new_content .= $matches[1];
    } else {
       $new_content .= wptexturize(wpautop($piece));
    }
  }

  return $new_content;
}

remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');
remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize');
add_filter('the_content', 'my_formatter', 99);

I see, interesting. The only reason I thought it was specific to the_content is because the plugin I’m using also runs apply_filters on the_excerpt and this doesn’t cause a problem.

Don’t want to hijack the thread, but here is some more info on these [raw] tags, I’d like to figure out what is going on, maybe we can develop a work-around.

Code posted here: http://www.wprecipes.com/disable-wordpress-automatic-formatting-on-posts-using-a-shortcode
Based on a plugin here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-remove-wpautop-wptexturize-with-a-shortcode?replies=8
Issues discussed here: http://theandystratton.com/2011/shortcode-autoformatting-html-with-paragraphs-and-line-breaks

@mloga64, like I said on the other topic, you should create a new topic to get the best help. It gets confusing when we are tackling two separate and unrelated problems in the same context.

That being said, the other thread didn’t say anything about putting code in the functions.php. Not sure where you got that from (and again, start a new thread and maybe we can get this figured out). You will probably need to re-upload your theme’s original functions.php (or show us the code and changes).