Title: [Plugin: Developer Formatter] DevFormatter breaks EasyRotator plugin
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Developer Formatter] DevFormatter breaks EasyRotator plugin

 *  [Koshmaar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/koshmaar/)
 * (@koshmaar)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-developer-formatter-devformatter-breaks-easyrotator-plugin/)
 * That’s becasue it changes the order of wpautop and/or other parsing and filtering
   functions, what causes the output of EasyRotator shortcode to be mangled and 
   one comment tag is changed to html entity, which causes havoc.
 * The short discussion which lead to this discovery is here: [http://www.dwuser.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1947&sid=4f66a28fe7a72983809a6eb0d5b7b96c](http://www.dwuser.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1947&sid=4f66a28fe7a72983809a6eb0d5b7b96c)
 * Any ideas how to fix it, or workaround it? Please help!
 * EDIT: ahhh, the forum post is visible to registered users only. Ok, so copy paste:
 * I said: “It’s in the middle fragment, which should be the end of comment (–>),
   however somehow got translated into entity. This could be because of wpautop (
   or other text processing stuff), however I disabled it and no change. When changing
   the entity to comment end, it displays as it should.
 * I’m trying to understand what happened, and apart from installing CMS like plugins
   no big things chagned. Perhaps it was always like that, only I didn’t notice 
   broken footer.
 * I’m using WordPress 3.3.1 and latest EasyRotator. Any ideas on how to fix it?”
 * >  The shredded rotator code you’re showing results when WordPress’s default 
   > behavior is changed such that wpautop is being run after the EasyRotator shortcode
   > is parsed. The usual culprit is some other plugin — for example, Shortcodes
   > Ultimate. The 1.0.1 update to the plugin includes compatibility for Shortcodes
   > Ultimate, so it is most likely a different plugin in your case.
   > First, try wrapping the EasyRotator shortcode in [raw]…[/raw]. If that doesn’t
   > fix the problem, I recommend you try disabling plugins one by one until you
   > identify the problematic plugin. Please share here what you find.
   > Sincerely,
   >  Drew O’Neill DWUser.com Support
   > > I replied: “Spot on!
   > > I got it, it’s the Developer Formatter: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/devformatter/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/devformatter/)
   > > It’s pretty useful, from my experience the only code formatting plugin in
   > > WP worth using (but I have high standards 😉 so would be nice if either of
   > > the pair would learn how to cooperate with the other.
   > > Oh, and the [raw] tags do nothing, they’re just displayed as is. Perhaps 
   > > another plugin is needed for them? Untill the situation is fixed, using [
   > > raw] could be a good workaround for the problem (if I understood that would
   > > prevent the EasyRotator code from being processed by wpautop).
   > >  “
   > > > Hi,
   > > > I just browsed the plugin’s source code, and it doesn’t appear that there
   > > > are any easy “skip” codes that cause code to be ignored. I can’t guarantee
   > > > that I didn’t miss it, though, as the code’s a little less than well-organized.
   > > > The best solution would be for the plugin author to add a special code (
   > > > like [raw][/raw]) that causes code to be skipped. Another solution would
   > > > be for you to manually edit the plugin to do this.
   > > > Or, you could create a special plugin that forces the EasyRotator shortcode
   > > > to be executed later (see: [http://www.viper007bond.com/2009/11/22/wordpress-code-earlier-shortcodes/](http://www.viper007bond.com/2009/11/22/wordpress-code-earlier-shortcodes/)…
   > > > you would use a higher priority value instead of lower).
   > > > Sincerely,
   > > >  Drew O’Neill
   > > I don’t want to mess with such things, hopefully the author of DevFormatter
   > > can quickly spot where’s the problem and create a fix or workaround.
   > > [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/devformatter/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/devformatter/)

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 *  Plugin Author [GSaraiva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gsaraiva/)
 * (@gsaraiva)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-developer-formatter-devformatter-breaks-easyrotator-plugin/#post-2763513)
 * Hi again Koshmaar,
 * Check out the new version. I’ve modified to be non-obstructive at content filter.
 * Thanks for your cooperation.

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