Empty P Tags When Using Shortcodes

PixelBook said
care to share the full code. did you add it in a filter function?

BF

Bookmarked this.

See this thread: http://themeforest.net/forums/thread/double-standards/75528?page=1#644602

I still haven’t found a solution to this after looking through about 5 threads. I am using what I think Pixelentity meant with his last two replies but it isn’t removing the extra junk. Is this code incorrect Pixelentity?

     add_filter('the_content', 'shortcode_empty_paragraph_fix');

    function shortcode_empty_paragraph_fix($content)
    {   
    $block = join("|",array("col"));
    // opening tag
    $rep = preg_replace("/(<p>)?\[($block)(\s[^\]]+)?\](<\/p>|<br />)?/","[$2$3]",$content);
    // closing tag
    $rep = preg_replace("/(</p><p>)?\[\/($block)](<\/p>|<br />)/","[/$2]",$rep);
    return $rep;
    }
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brainbuzzmedia said
I am using what I think Pixelentity meant with his last two replies but it isn’t removing the extra junk. Is this code incorrect Pixelentity?

$block = join("|",array("shortcode1","shortcode2","shortcode3"));

Erm…how about just this -

p:empty { display: none; }

Or, to cover your bases and hide all empty elements,

*:empty { display: none; }

murderbydeath said
Erm…how about just this -

p:empty { display: none; }

Or, to cover your bases and hide all empty elements,

*:empty { display: none; }

I’ve used this in the past, when I use to bundle shortcodes in my themes and it worked great. They shouldn’t reject you for using these functions, they don’t modify the_content.

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

OR

function prefix_remove_wpautop( $content ) {
    $content = trim( wpautop( do_shortcode( $content ) ) );
    if ( substr( $content, 0, 4 ) == '')
        $content = substr( $content, 4 );
    if ( substr( $content, -3, 3 ) == '<p>')
        $content = substr( $content, 0, -3);
    $content = str_replace( array( '</p><p></p>' ), '', $content );
    return $content;
}

Usage:

return prefix_remove_wpautop( $content );

StevenGliebe said
For what it’s worth, I had been following misguided advice from tutorials that should be taken offline before I ran across this old but useful post by Viper007Bond: http://www.viper007bond.com/2009/11/22/wordpress-code-earlier-shortcodes/ Preprocessing shortcodes that output user-supplied content end up showing correctly without all the annoying paragraph and break formatting issues while third-party plugin shortcodes continue to function normally. I only implemented this recently and so far so good. Anybody have a reason that this is not a good solution?

This is what I`m using too. So far so good. I can`t believe how such a big issue can be solved by only adding a number at the end of the add_filter('the_content', 'do_shortcode');.

add_filter('the_content', 'do_shortcode', 7);