Title: Shortcode Cleaner Lite
Author: Mohamed Abd Elhalim
Published: <strong>February 8, 2018</strong>
Last modified: March 11, 2021

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# shortcode-cleaner-lite

 By [Mohamed Abd Elhalim](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mandooox/)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-cleaner-lite/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-cleaner-lite/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-cleaner-lite/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/shortcode-cleaner-lite/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of March 6, 2025 and is not available for download.
Reason: Security Issue.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[I love you.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-love-you-34/)󠁿

 [Larute](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeremynivisongmailcom/) January 13, 2024

Thank you for writing this. Cleaned hundreds of pages in a sec!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b05c218c1f2dffa5c82321f5c67da176be11709a23a9a79edc796fb2a6ffc318?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Amazing!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-3782/)󠁿

 [johnegg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnegg/) July 13, 2023

Saved me days of work. Removed ugly VC shortcodes from 100s of blog posts in a matter
of seconds.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesn’t do anything but break pages.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-do-anything-but-break-pages/)󠁿

 [eisakov1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/eisakov1/) April 12, 2022

This plugin has conflicts with many plugins that use shrotcodes, and all it does
is break your pages. No criteria for what a “broken” shortcode is – it’s completely
arbitrary. The plugin just decides, and if you need that shortcode you’re out of
luck. You need to manually whitelist shortcodes, which can take forever for complex
sites, and since the word “broken” doesn’t seem to mean anything, your site can 
break before you even find out this plugin scrubbed out a shrotcode. Ultimately 
it’s a waste of time and causes undue stress.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Such a timer saver!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/such-a-timer-saver/)󠁿

 [websitedeptuk](https://profiles.wordpress.org/websitedeptuk/) April 5, 2022

Thanks!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Life saver](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/life-saver-386/)󠁿

 [Joshua Clinton](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hostsonny/) November 26, 2021

Very good

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Not permanent removal](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-8909/)󠁿

 [jen697](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jen697/) November 18, 2021

The difference between front-end removal and database removal wasn’t made clear.
The lite version of this plugin doesn’t permanently remove the shortcodes; if you
uninstall the plugin they will come back.

 [ Read all 28 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/shortcode-cleaner-lite/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Shortcode Cleaner Lite” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Mohamed Abd Elhalim ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mandooox/)
 *   [ jozoor ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jozoor/)

“Shortcode Cleaner Lite” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/shortcode-cleaner-lite/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Shortcode Cleaner Lite” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/shortcode-cleaner-lite)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcode-cleaner-lite/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/shortcode-cleaner-lite/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/shortcode-cleaner-lite/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/shortcode-cleaner-lite/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.9**
 *  Last updated **5 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.7.15**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Arabic](https://ar.wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-cleaner-lite/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-cleaner-lite/),
   and [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-cleaner-lite/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/shortcode-cleaner-lite)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-cleaner-lite/advanced/)