Shortcode in Newscrunch

Hi again,
finally, I made a small change to the code snippet so that the shortcode disappears only in posts, but the full length of the posts is not displayed in the categories.
Regards, Here’s the code:

<p class="spnc-description">
    <?php
        $excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
        $excerpt = strip_shortcodes($excerpt);
        echo apply_filters('the_excerpt', $excerpt);
    ?>
</p>

Thanks again.

Hi and hello again (positively),
I have another small snippet for you.
I just added it to your theme’s functions.php file.

Recap: First, shortcodes were being displayed in posts. So, in content.php, I replaced

<?php newscrunch_excerpt_fn(15); ?>

with

<?php
    $excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
    $excerpt = strip_shortcodes($excerpt);
    echo apply_filters('the_excerpt', $excerpt);
?>

This hides the shortcodes and ensures that posts are not displayed in full.

Afterwards, I added this snippet at the end of the theme’s functions.php, to make sure that the post excerpt length is set back to 15.

// Begrenzung der Beitragsvorschau-Länge (Excerpt) bei Newscrunch Theme
add_filter('excerpt_length', function($length) {
    return get_theme_mod('post_excerpt_length', 15); // 15 Wörter als Standard, kann im Customizer geändert werden
}, 999);

Maybe you could include this in the next update. If you hadn’t replied so quickly and shown me where the “excerpt” line was, I would still be searching today, or would have given up. Thanks again. Best regards.

Hi,
The exact problem was that the shortcode was being displayed as raw text in your theme’s archive and category previews, but I did not want the shortcode to be shown there at all.

Your initial code snippet did hide the shortcode, but it also displayed the entire post content in the preview, instead of a short excerpt.

We then edited the content.php and the functions.php of the theme so that shortcodes are now not displayed in post previews anymore, and the excerpt length is set back to 15 words for better usability.

It seems to be a bug in the theme that shortcodes are printed as text in previews/excerpts. In other themes, shortcodes are usually omitted or filtered out in the archive outputs.

Thank you for your help!