Title: Caption shortcode shown in scroll
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Caption shortcode shown in scroll

 *  [Midlife Riding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midlife-riding/)
 * (@midlife-riding)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-caption-shortcode-shown-in-scroll/)
 * **NOTE: I am not the author of this plugin so please do not ask me for support!**
   I just wanted to share my fix to a problem I’ve seen others post about without
   any solution posted for it (that I could find).
 * The scroller removes shortcodes by default but the [caption] shortcode does not
   get filtered out or rendered correctly by default. It looks like crap and messes
   with the usability of this otherwise awesome scroller plugin.
 * To fix it,
 * Open scroll-post-excerpt.php and find:
 *     ```
       $spe_dp_clean = spe_dp_clean($spe_data->post_content, $spe_excerpt_length);
       $spe_dp_clean = esc_sql($spe_dp_clean);
       ```
   
 * I don’t know the line # but it’s roughly 1/3 of the way down in the file.
 * Replace that code with:
 *     ```
       $spe_dp_clean = spe_dp_clean(strip_shortcodes($spe_data->post_content), $spe_excerpt_length);
       $spe_dp_clean = esc_sql($spe_dp_clean);
       ```
   
 * This will remove the [caption] shortcodes and any other shortcodes that may sneak
   past the plugin author’s default filter. It is important that remove the shortcodes
   in this order to make sure that the excerpt length only counts the actual characters
   being displayed AFTER the shortcodes have been removed. Otherwise, you may specify
   an excerpt length of 200 characters but only 50 characters get displayed because
   150 characters of shortcodes got removed but was counted towards your 200 character
   excerpt length.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/scroll-post-excerpt/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/scroll-post-excerpt/)

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 * Last reply from: [Midlife Riding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midlife-riding/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-caption-shortcode-shown-in-scroll/)
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