Title: [Plugin: SimpleMap Store Locator] Shortcode Formatting Causes JS Errors
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: SimpleMap Store Locator] Shortcode Formatting Causes JS Errors

 *  Resolved [Jonathan Goldford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jg-visual/)
 * (@jg-visual)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simplemap-store-locator-shortcode-formatting-causes-js-errors/)
 * A number of JS errors are being thrown from what looks to be WordPress’s shortcode
   formatting. A number of </p> tags are being added and some special characters
   are being changed to their ISO Latin-1 codes. For example, the first ampersand(&)
   on line 101 in simplemap.php is being changed to & # 0 3 8 ;. This obviously 
   breaks the JS.
 * Is this a known error and is there something I can do to remove this formatting?
 * Thanks a lot.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simplemap/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simplemap/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Jonathan Goldford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jg-visual/)
 * (@jg-visual)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simplemap-store-locator-shortcode-formatting-causes-js-errors/#post-2789321)
 * I was able to fix this by using a modified version of this shortcode: [http://css-tricks.com/snippets/wordpress/disable-automatic-formatting-using-a-shortcode/](http://css-tricks.com/snippets/wordpress/disable-automatic-formatting-using-a-shortcode/)
 * It strips out formatting for all content within the [raw][/raw] shortcode.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simplemap-store-locator-shortcode-formatting-causes-js-errors/#post-2789321)
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