Scott Reilly

By default in WordPress, if the plugin that provides the functionality to handle any given shortcode is disabled, or if a shortcode is improperly defined in the content (such as with a typo), then the shortcode in question will appear on the site in its entirety, unprocessed by WordPress. At best this reveals unsightly code-like text to visitors and at worst can potentially expose information not intended to be seen by visitors.
This plugin prevents unhandled shortcodes from appearing in the content of a post or page. If the shortcode is of the self-closing variety, then the shortcode tag and its attributes are not displayed and nothing is shown in their place. If the shortcode is of the enclosing variety (an opening and closing tag bookend some text or markup), then the text that is being enclosed will be shown, but the shortcode tag and attributes that surround the text will not be displayed.
See the Filters section for more customization tips.
Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/hide-broken-shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-broken-shortcodes/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/hide-broken-shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="https://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a>
<h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
Developer documentation can be found in <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/hide-broken-shortcodes/blob/master/DEVELOPER-DOCS.md" rel="nofollow ugc">DEVELOPER-DOCS.md</a>. That documentation covers the hooks provided by the plugin.
As an overview, these are the hooks provided by the plugin:
<ul>
<li><code>hide_broken_shortcode</code> : Customizes what, if anything, gets displayed when a broken shortcode is encountered.</li>
<li><code>hide_broken_shortcodes_filters</code> : Customizes what filters to hook to find text with potential broken shortcodes.</li>
</ul>

Hide Broken Shortcodes

Prevent broken shortcodes from appearing in posts and pages.

Patrick Daly

Mike Manger

adamkrawiec

Create a library of reusable terms (strings) and display their contents anywhere on your site with a shortcode.
Library lets you create a library of reusable terms (or strings) without any code necessary and access a term’s content with a shortcode.
You can add a term (just like you’d add a post or page) called “Copyright Line” and its content could be “©2014 Your Company” and then use that anywhere on the site with <code>[library term="copyright-line"]</code> or <code><?php do_shortcode( '[library term="copyright-line"] ); ?></code>.
Because the library terms are a post type they inherit WordPress features like revision history, draft/scheduled/published, ability to change the term slug, full HTML, and so on.
Business Cases
These are real-world examples of how this plugin is being used or could be used. Each of these uses a shortcode to display the most up-to-date version of a term’s content.
A financial institution is advertising an interest rate across many pages on a large website. There are instances of this percentage in content and in templates. Within a matter of seconds all of these numbers can be changed rather than crossing your fingers and hoping you caught all of the rates.
In order to quickly change the price of a fluctuating product a company put their price in a term to update across the whole site.
A health insurance company uses the same disclosures on many pages and UI contexts and keeping them compliant with changing regulations was difficult until they kept them stored in the Library.
The copyright line in the footer of a website might change sometimes to reflect a new year, a new trademark, new ownership, etc.
<a href="https://github.com/developdaly/library" rel="nofollow ugc">Contribute on Github</a> | <a href="https://github.com/developdaly/library/issues?labels=bug&milestone=&page=1&state=open" rel="nofollow ugc">Report Bugs</a>

Library

Create a library of reusable terms (strings) and display their contents anywhere on your site with a shortcode.

Hide Broken Shortcodes vs Library