remove empty tags around shortcodes

• kitt

• March 19, 2018 at 9:54 pm

I want to remove empty tags around shortcodes in WYSIWYG field.

Based on this working code for the regular WP WYSIWYG, I tried to create an equivalent for the ACF WYSIWYG, but it doesn’t work. It renders shortcodes directly in the editor after saving the post 🙁

function remove_empty_tags_around_shortcodes_acf_wysiwyg( $value, $post_id, $field ) {
  $tags = array(
      '<p>[' => '[',
      ']</p>' => ']',
      ']<br>' => ']',
      ']<br />' => ']'
  );

  $content = apply_filters('the_content',$value);
  $content = strtr($content, $tags);
  return $content;
}

add_filter('acf/load_value/type=wysiwyg', 'remove_empty_tags_around_shortcodes_acf_wysiwyg', 10, 3);

Can anyone help?

• John Huebner

• March 20, 2018 at 11:15 pm

change

function remove_empty_tags_around_shortcodes_acf_wysiwyg( $value, $post_id, $field ) {

to

function remove_empty_tags_around_shortcodes_acf_wysiwyg( $value ) {

and

add_filter('acf/load_value/type=wysiwyg', 'remove_empty_tags_around_shortcodes_acf_wysiwyg', 10, 1);

to

add_filter('acf_the_content', 'remove_empty_tags_around_shortcodes_acf_wysiwyg', 10, 1);

See the notes here https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/wysiwyg-editor/

• kitt

• March 21, 2018 at 3:02 am

Thank you. It works.