Strip Short Codes From Excerpts

The plugin doesn’t seem to be stripping shortcodes from post excerpts properly.

Here’s a fix….

/**
 * @param $post_id
 * @param $excerpt_length
 *
 * @return mixed|string|string[]|null
 */
public static function elp_excerpt_by_id( $post_id, $excerpt_length ) {

	$the_post    = get_post( $post_id );
	$the_excerpt = $the_post->post_content;
	$the_excerpt = strip_tags( strip_shortcodes( $the_excerpt ) );
	$the_excerpt = preg_replace( "~(?:\[/?)[^/\]]+/?\]~s", '', $the_excerpt );
	$words       = explode( ' ', $the_excerpt, $excerpt_length + 1 );

	if ( count( $words ) > $excerpt_length ) {

		array_pop( $words );
		array_push( $words, '...' );
		$the_excerpt = implode( ' ', $words );

	}

	$the_excerpt = nl2br( $the_excerpt );
	$the_excerpt = str_replace( "<br>", " ", $the_excerpt );
	$the_excerpt = str_replace( "<br />", " ", $the_excerpt );
	$the_excerpt = str_replace( "\r\n", " ", $the_excerpt );

	return $the_excerpt;

}

• This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Michael Ecklund.