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:
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<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

This plugin does what it says. Really a great plugin. Thank you developer.

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Prevent broken shortcodes from appearing in posts and pages.

This plugin provides template tags that allow you to retrieve the name, path (relative or absolute), url, or fully marked-up link to a randomly chosen file or files in a specified directory.
Arguments to the functions permit you to limit what file(s) can be randomly selected based on a given set of file extensions. You can also explicitly specify files that should not be randomly selected.
This functionality can be useful for displaying random images/logos or including text from random files onto your site (writing excerpts, multi-line quotes, etc). Other ideas: random ads, random CSS files, random theme template selection.
Notes:
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If you want to actually display the name of the random file, be sure to ‘echo’ the results:

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Unless you limit the file search to only include a particular extension (via <code>$extensions</code> argument), all files in the specified <code>$dir</code> will be under consideration for random selection
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Can be run inside or outside of “the loop”
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</ul>
Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/random-file/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/random-file/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/random-file/" 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/random-file/blob/master/DEVELOPER-DOCS.md" rel="nofollow ugc">DEVELOPER-DOCS.md</a>. That documentation covers the template tags and hooks provided by the plugin.
As an overview, these are the template tags provided by the plugin:
<ul>
<li><code>c2c_random_file()</code> : Retrieves the name of a random file from a specified directory and returns information based on the file.</li>
<li><code>c2c_random_files()</code> : Retrieves the name, path, or link to a specified number of randomly chosen files in a specified directory.</li>
</ul>
These are the hooks provided by the plugin:
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<li><code>c2c_random_file</code> : Filter to safely invoke <code>c2c_random_file()</code> in such a way that if the plugin were deactivated or deleted, then your calls to the function won’t cause errors in your site.</li>
<li><code>c2c_random_files</code> : Filter to safely invoke <code>c2c_random_files()</code> in such a way that if the plugin were deactivated or deleted, then your calls to the function won’t cause errors in your site.</li>
</ul>

Random File

Retrieve the name, path, or link to a randomly chosen file or files in a specified directory.

Hide Broken Shortcodes vs Random File