Remove Orphan Shortcodes<\/a>. It works in the same way as the script above. In my option, it is better to just add the code yourself. Bundling to many plugins is not the best way to maintain your website.<\/p>\nDisplay only the content<\/h3>\n
Unfortunately, that\u2019s not always the best way. In our example, we had some really basic shortcode without any content. Let\u2019s say you used another shortcode that was highlighting the important phrases in your posts. Something like [fancy_highlight]keyword for current paragraph[\/fancy_highlight]. You don\u2019t want to remove it because your articles will have empty spaces in the places where it should have the most important parts. We can use the second approach of creating a shortcode that won\u2019t remove content between. Like with the first one just use below function and change the name of shortcode to the one you want to replace.[k_blog_code]\/\/ Remove shortcode but leave its content on page
\nfunction wpkb_extract_shortcode_content( $atts, $content ) {
\nreturn do_shortcode( $content );
\n}
\nadd_shortcode( ‘fancy_highlight’, ‘wpkb_extract_shortcode_content’ );
\n[\/k_blog_code]The difference between this and the previous one is only the output. You will have shortcode content on your page without the shortcode tags. “Example sentence with [fancy_highlight]very important keywords[\/fancy_highlight] in the middle”\u00a0will change to “Example sentence with very important keywords in the middle”. It\u2019s much better than “Example sentence with in the middle”. You will lose the highlight effect but the sentence will still make sense for your visitors. If you have more than one shortcode just duplicate the line with add_shortcode() function and change the shortcode name to the other shortcode you want to hide.<\/p>\n
Shortcode finder<\/h3>\n
The two methods are great and easy but they are not the best. Removing not working shortcodes from posts by editing the content was the way to go for long time website or blog. I know it\u2019s the most tedious method but we need to put a little extra effort for the sake of our website speed. It won’t be made automatically but we can help you make it much much easier. We will need to create a shortcode that searches for other shortcodes. That\u2019s quite funny but luckily for us, we can remove it after the search and us it whenever we need it again.<\/p>\n
Paste the below code to your functions.php as previously.<\/p>\n
[k_blog_code]\/\/ Shortcode for finding shortcodes in posts
\nfunction wpkb_find_posts_with_shortcode( $atts ) {
\n$atts = shortcode_atts( array(
\n‘name’ => ”,
\n), $atts );<\/p>\n
if ( $atts[ ‘name’ ] != ” ) {
\n$query = new WP_Query( array(
\n‘s’ => ‘[‘ . $atts[ ‘name’ ],
\n‘post_type’ => ‘any’,
\n‘posts_per_page’ => -1,
\n) );<\/p>\n
if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
\n$content = ‘<strong>List of posts with shortcode “‘ . $atts[ ‘name’ ] . ‘”:<\/strong>’;
\n$content .= ‘<ul>’;<\/p>\n
while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
\n$query->the_post();<\/p>\n
$content .= ‘<li>’ . get_the_title() . ‘ ( <a href=”‘ . get_the_permalink() . ‘” target=”_blank”>View<\/a> | <a href=”‘ . get_edit_post_link() . ‘” target=”_blank”>Edit<\/a> )<\/li>’;
\n}
\nwp_reset_postdata();<\/p>\n
$content .= ‘<\/ul>’;
\n} else {
\n$content = ‘<p><strong>Sorry no posts with shortcode name “‘ . $atts[ ‘name’ ] . ‘” found.<\/strong><\/p>’;
\n}
\n} else {
\n$content = ‘<p><strong>Please set shortcode “name” for search.<\/strong><\/p>’;
\n}<\/p>\n
return $content;
\n}
\nadd_shortcode( ‘find_posts_with_shortcode’, ‘wpkb_find_posts_with_shortcode’ );[\/k_blog_code]
\nThis will add helper shortcode for finding all posts with the shortcode you want to remove. To use it add this to one of your pages and click Preview button or create a new page just to search and remove the shortcode.<\/p>\n
[k_blog_code] [find_posts_with_shortcode name=”easy_social_buttons”][\/k_blog_code]
\nWhen you view the page it should display a list of all posts that have the shortcode you are searching for. The list will have post name and two links after that:
\nView<\/strong> – you can check the post in a new tab and see where the shortcode is used.
\nEdit<\/strong> – you can go directly to edit screen in WordPress admin panel to remove the shortcode.<\/p>\nTo make it easier to use our finder shortcode displays additional messages. If it can\u2019t find any post with searching shortcode it will let you know about it. Also if you forget to specify the name of shortcode you want to find it will display a little reminder.<\/p>\n
Conclusion<\/h3>\n
To sum up a little word of advice: shortcodes are great if used properly. It\u2019s hard to imagine creating WordPress websites without them. As with everything – it\u2019s good to not overuse them and have few dozens of plugins with multiple shortcodes. This will most likely decrease the speed of your website and may impact your traffic and page rank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hide the shortcode The easiest way of removing the shortcode that isn\u2019t working is replacing it. To do this we will need to\u2026 create our own shortcode (isn\u2019t that rad?). We will use the [easy_social_buttons] as an example. To hide it on our pages we will create a shortcode with the same name. Thanks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":5082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[25,34,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpkraken.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpkraken.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpkraken.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpkraken.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpkraken.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpkraken.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpkraken.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpkraken.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpkraken.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpkraken.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}