Title: Preventing shortcode error
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Preventing shortcode error

 *  Resolved [bolint](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bolint/)
 * (@bolint)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preventing-shortcode-error/)
 * Hi,
 * It would be great if the plugin can use some method to prevent WP shortcode error
   like: `Notice: add_shortcode was called incorrectly. Invalid shortcode name: .
   Do not use spaces or reserved characters: & / < > [ ]`
    For now, I modified the
   code in the Shortcode.php line 39: `str_replace(array(' ', '&', '/', '<', '>','[',']'),'-',
   $snippet['title']),`
 * Thanks a lot!
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 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preventing-shortcode-error/)
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