Tom McFarlin

<p>Remove Empty Shortcodes helps maintain clean content by removing shortcodes that no longer work or generate output. This commonly happens when:</p>
<ul>
<li>You’ve deactivated a plugin that provided shortcodes</li>
<li>You’re trying different plugins and some left behind inactive shortcodes</li>
<li>You have shortcodes from plugins that weren’t properly uninstalled</li>
</ul>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically removes inactive shortcodes from displayed content</li>
<li>Preserves your original content in the database</li>
<li>Works with all public post types</li>
<li>Handles both self-closing and wrapped shortcodes</li>
<li>Admin scanner to find and review unregistered shortcodes</li>
<li>On-demand scanning with cached results</li>
<li>Ignore specific shortcodes you want to keep</li>
<li>Zero configuration required for automatic removal</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<p>The plugin checks your content for shortcodes when pages are displayed. If it finds shortcodes that:<br />
* Don’t produce any output<br />
* Aren’t registered with WordPress<br />
* Are empty or inactive</p>
<p>It removes them from the displayed content while keeping your original content intact in the database.</p>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Clean up content after removing plugins that used shortcodes</li>
<li>Remove inactive shortcodes without editing posts manually</li>
<li>Maintain clean content for readers and search engines</li>
<li>Preserve original content in case you reinstall removed plugins</li>
</ul>


Remove Empty Shortcodes

Automatically removes empty or inactive shortcodes from your content while preserving your original database entries.

Jan Karres

devowl.io GmbH

Mario Günter

Matthias Günter

Faruk Garic

<p><strong>Organize content like posts, pages or WooCommerce products and all custom post types in category folders. It’s basically a file manager like Windows Explorer or Mac Finder, but for your content in WordPress. Mass content management made easy with Real Category Management!</strong></p>
<p>Real Category Management allows you to organize all your WordPress categories within the overview table of each content type – easily and flexibly. Use your mouse to drag and drop your posts into categories. Create, name, delete or rearrange your categories. It works seamlessly with any custom post type. Just install this plugin, and it will work with posts, pages, WooCommerce products, LearnPress content, bbPress forums and much more.</p>
<p><em>In the free version, the folder tree is only available for posts.</em></p>
<h3>Free Sandbox</h3>
<p>You want to try Real Category Management before installing? <strong>Take a free sandbox</strong> and play around!</p>
<p><a href="https://try.devowl.io/?product=RCM" rel="nofollow ugc">Create sandbox</a></p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p><strong><em>Manage content</em> in folders:</strong> Your categories etc. are visualized as folders for a better overview</p>
<p><strong>Organize content by <em>drag & drop</em>:</strong> Move content or assign it to multiple categories without the need to edit every post</p>
<p><strong>Works with <em>existing taxonomies</em>:</strong> All WordPress hierarchical taxonomies are automatically used to visualize folders</p>
<p><strong><em>All custom post types</em> supported:</strong> Organized all your content, whether posts, pages, WooCommerce products, LearnPress content, bbPress forums or something else (in free version only posts)</p>
<p><strong><em>Support for WooCommerce</em> products and product attributes:</strong> Manage large product inventories efficiently and with a better overview that saves a lot of time</p>
<p><strong>Switch pages <em>without reloading</em>:</strong> Browse your large content library faster by changing only the contents of the content table, but not reloading the whole page</p>
<p>You want a list of all features? <em>Get it by scrolling down!</em></p>
<h3>Supported Languages</h3>
<p>Real Category Management is <strong>in multiple languages available</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>French</li>
</ul>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<p>Real Category Management uses WordPress taxonomies to show the folder tree. These are used for content types by most WordPress plugins. Therefore, you can easily manage content you created with the following and many more WordPress plugins. <strong>You can buy our plugin in the security that it works with your WordPress</strong>, if your plugins use WordPress custom post types and/or taxonomies. In the rare case that the Real Category Management is not compatible with a popular theme or plugin, just <a href="https://devowl.io/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">open a support ticket</a> and <strong>we will make it work</strong>.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a> (Products)</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/learnpress/" rel="ugc">LearnPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/" rel="ugc">bbPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-job-manager/" rel="ugc">WP Job Manager</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/strong-testimonials/" rel="ugc">Strong Testimonials</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/" rel="ugc">Ultimate Member</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/" rel="ugc">The Events Calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/foogallery/" rel="ugc">FooGallery</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/" rel="ugc">Elementor Website Builder</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-terms-of-service-and-privacy-policy/#description" rel="ugc">WP AutoTerms</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/" rel="ugc">Advanced Custom Fields</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/popup-builder/" rel="ugc">Popup Builder by Sygnoos</a></li>
<li><a href="https://codecanyon.net/item/mailster-email-newsletter-plugin-for-wordpress/3078294" rel="nofollow ugc">Mailster</a> (Campaigns)</li>
<li><a href="https://codecanyon.net/item/justified-image-grid-premium-wordpress-gallery/2594251" rel="nofollow ugc">Justified Image Grid</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>All Features of Real Category Management</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.x / Gutenberg ready</li>
<li>Manage content in folders that visualized your categories etc.</li>
<li>Full control over your folders in one toolbar (create, rename, delete)</li>
<li>Sort folders by drag & drop and create a custom order</li>
<li>Quickly navigate through the folders with folder quick search</li>
<li>Organize content by drag & drop without the need to edit every post</li>
<li>Existing WordPress hierarchical taxonomies are used to show the folder three</li>
<li>Custom post types like WooCommerce products, LearnPress content ore bbPress forums are supported (in PRO version)</li>
<li>Support for WooCommerce products and product attributes</li>
<li>Page change in pagination without reloading the whole page in your WordPress backend</li>
<li>Works great on touch devices</li>
<li>Translated into several languages</li>
<li>Compatible with plugins that uses WordPress custom post types</li>
<li>Supports WordPress Multisite</li>
<li>GPDR/DSGVO: The plugin does not collect personal data without your consent!</li>
</ul>
<h3>Organize your content like a pro</h3>
<p>Everyone starts their WordPress website from scratch. But over time, the content on a website can grow significantly. Especially with (WooCommerce) stores, (LearnPress) learning content or (bbPress) forums, hundreds or even thousands of entries quickly accumulate in your content management system.</p>
<p>You can lose the overview quickly or invest a lot of time digging through the content using filters. It would be easier if you could intuitively organize the content into folders. Just like you are used to from your Windows Explorer or Mac Finder for files. This is exactly what category folders of Real Category Management enable you to do. Managing content in folders is a better form of content management than clicking through long lists!</p>
<p>Real Category Management extends the functionality of standard WordPress custom post types and taxonomies. Custom post types – e.g. pages, WooCommerce products, or testimonials – are used by hundreds of WordPress plugins to manage new types of content in WordPress. Each of these contents can be efficiently managed with the folder tree of Real Category Management. Taxonomies – by default there are categories for posts – on the other hand, are the way to group content. We take these groups and visualize them as (hierarchically structured) folders to clearly display your content in folders.</p>
<p>That allows you to keep track of hundreds of articles in the online store, various lessons in your learning platform or thousands of threads in your forum at any time and to organize content efficiently!</p>
<h3>Get PRO of Real Category Management</h3>
<p>You will download the free version of this plugin, which <strong>contains all the core features and to use it for posts in your WordPress website</strong>.</p>
<p>Our PRO version offers category folders for better content management for all custom post types like WooCommerce products, LearnPress content, bbPress forums and much more. <a href="https://devowl.io/go/real-category-management?source=wordpress-org-description" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Learn more about the PRO version.</strong></a></p>


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