[dropcap]text[/dropcap] help

Well things get weird with shortcodes and typically those get filtered out as there’s a million different ways shortcodes are used – so for safety and not showing the [shortcodename] in the description they get filtered out.

You should have a specific description for the page in the SEO plugin which should pull into the plugin’s og:description tag. It seems to be relying on reading the content and the shortcode is being filtered out.

A more standard way to handle dropcaps/words is to have a css class for them that you’d wrap the letter/word in a span tag.

3rd option is to write an excerpt that the plugin will pull before looking for content.

btw.. nice photos ??

Hello Chuck and thanks for the reply!
I wrote about this problem with [dropcap][/dropcap] on the support forum for my current WP theme and they gave me a PHP function that resolved the issue because the shortcode skipped the text inside the shortcode on the summary of the article on the WP index page…

Here is the discussion and the code

function custom_excerpt($text = '') {
	$raw_excerpt = $text;
	if ( '' == $text ) {
		$text = get_the_content('');
                // $text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
		$text = do_shortcode( $text );
		$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
		$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
		$excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', 55);
		$excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . '[...]');
		$text = wp_trim_words( $text, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more );
	}
	return apply_filters('wp_trim_excerpt', $text, $raw_excerpt);
}
remove_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt'  );
add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'custom_excerpt'  );

Can you tell me if this function can help me resolve the issue with your plugin and if yes, where can I implement this function to make it work… ??

Thanks again!

It seems that All in One SEO Pack gets the code ok and doesn’t skip the text inside the [dropcap shortcode and I didn’t used the custom field to paste the text without the shortcode…

I guess that my problem should be solved somewhere here

function wpfbogp_callback( $content ) {
	// Grab the page title and meta description
	$title = preg_match( '/<title>(.*)<\/title>/', $content, $title_matches );
	$description = preg_match( '/<meta name="description" content="(.*)"/', $content, $description_matches );

	// Take page title and meta description and place it in the ogp meta tags
	if ( $title !== FALSE && count( $title_matches ) == 2 ) {
		$content = preg_replace( '/<meta property="og:title" content="(.*)">/', '<meta property="og:title" content="' . $title_matches[1] . '">', $content );
	}

	if ( $description !== FALSE && count( $description_matches ) == 2 ) {
		$content = preg_replace( '/<meta property="og:description" content="(.*)">/', '<meta property="og:description" content="' . $description_matches[1] . '">', $content );
	}

	return $content;
}

I can’t figure out because the <meta name=”description” on my page gets the description correctly and the OG plugin skips the text inside the shortcode… even if the function of the plugin tells him to get the OG description from the <meta name=”description”…