Double standards!

rifki said
My item also was soft rejected for the same reason, try this:

function shortcode_empty_paragraph_fix($content){   
    $array = array (
        '<p>[' => '[', 
        ']</p>' => ']', 
        ']<br />' => ']'
    );

    $content = strtr($content, $array);
    return $content;
}

add_filter('the_content', 'shortcode_empty_paragraph_fix');

Don’t use it. This was exactly why my theme was soft rejected:

Please remove this function shortcode_empty_paragraph_fix() you cannot modify the_content, leave this to the plugins. This is a poor practice and it may break plugins.

The functions I posted don’t modify the_content, and shortcode_unautop is a standard WordPress function. The only thing is shortcode_unautop doesn’t remove line breaks, and the first function I posted takes care of that.

Has this change in policy been announced somewhere?

What should I do now , My theme was be rejected and they told me

“please make sure that you’re not stripping out any native functionality.”

I cannot use remove_filter? add_filter ?

Find a solution now use

function prefix_remove_wpautop( $content ) {
    $content = do_shortcode( shortcode_unautop( $content ) );
    $content = preg_replace( '#^<\/p>|^<br />|<p>$#', '', $content );
    return $content;
}</p>

thx to itsmattadams

Some shortcodes still require those stray paragraph tags to be removed, so, has anyone found a solution that will be accepted ?

I used CSS empty to set the paragraph tag to display none. Wouldn’t that work?

fd_themes said
How is there such a disparity? I’m just struggling to get my head around the double standards on here. Very frustrating. Is it just luck of the draw with reviewers?

Well, you can’t go back and re-review themes already in the marketplace. They just don’t have the manpower to do that. But, I would hope that those themes would be subjected to the same judgement if they submit updates.

It’s really good that ThemeForest is checking for this now.

Now to get the bad tutorials updated or removed…

Hey guys,

I’m a bit confused regarding this wpautop.

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

function prefix_remove_wpautop( $content ) {
    $content = do_shortcode( shortcode_unautop( $content ) );
    $content = preg_replace( '#^<\/p>|^<br />|<p>$#', '', $content );
    return $content;
}
</p>