Empty P Tags When Using Shortcodes

I love the theme I’m working with right now but the shortcodes are leaving behind empty paragraph tags thus messing up spacing. Probably old news but it took me a bit of Googling…this plugin works a treat if you’re having this issue

it happens when your shortcode starts or it goes on multiple lines, all that plugin do is disabling wpautop (i guess)

You can also strip formatting by wrapping it in a shortcode like this.

Better to add a code where unwanted p, br and such are removed automatically from the shortcodes only, so no need for a double shortcode and no need for a wp auto p removal which will lead to unwanted formatting errors at well.

That’s just how I do it.

here is an example also

Thanks for replies folks. Do you mean I would be better off hard coding something in the functions.php file for each shortcode? I’m confused…

Thanks for replies folks. Do you mean I would be better off hard coding something in the functions.php file for each shortcode? I’m confused…

Your theme has wonky poorly written shortcode.

You’ll want something like…

I think that is the correct code. I honestly haven’t written or used shortcode in over a year so I had to dig back into the archives.

The preg_replace is what your missing. It automatically removes the P’s from the shortcode without messing with core wp stuff.

Here is a complete shortcode to put the above code into context.

christopherjon said

Thanks for replies folks. Do you mean I would be better off hard coding something in the functions.php file for each shortcode? I’m confused…

Yeah,

Your theme has wonky poorly written shortcode.

You’ll want something like…

$content = preg_replace('#^<\/p>|

$#’, ’’, $content);

I think that is the correct code. I honestly haven’t written or used shortcode in over a year so I had to dig back into the archives.

The preg_replace is what your missing. It automatically removes the P’s from the shortcode without messing with core wp stuff.

Here is a complete shortcode to put the above code into context.

function clone_box_basic( $atts, $content = null ) { $content = preg_replace('#^<\/p>|

$#’, ’’, $content); return ‘

’ . do_shortcode($content) . ‘ ’; } add_shortcode(‘box_basic’, ‘clone_box_basic’);

Ok, thanks! I thought I was on the right track with preg_replace from what I read at a few sites…that gives me a direction to go. I’d love to fix this myself if at all possible. Enough info to be dangerous anyway

BTW – how does one nicely refer the author to this thread? Without calling his shortcodes wonky

BTW – how does one nicely refer the author to this thread? Without calling his shortcodes wonky

you’ll want to use something like

//Clean Up WordPress Shortcode Formatting - important for nested shortcodes
//adjusted from http://donalmacarthur.com/articles/cleaning-up-wordpress-shortcode-formatting/
function parse_shortcode_content( $content ) {

   /* Parse nested shortcodes and add formatting. */
    $content = trim( do_shortcode( shortcode_unautop( $content ) ) );

    /* Remove '' from the start of the string. */
    if ( substr( $content, 0, 4 ) == '' )
        $content = substr( $content, 4 );

    /* Remove '' from the end of the string. */
    if ( substr( $content, -3, 3 ) == '' )
        $content = substr( $content, 0, -3 );

    /* Remove any instances of ''. */
    $content = str_replace( array( '<p></p>' ), '', $content );
    $content = str_replace( array( '<p>  </p>' ), '', $content );

    return $content;
}

//move wpautop filter to AFTER shortcode is processed
remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' );
add_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' , 99);
add_filter( 'the_content', 'shortcode_unautop',100 );