Title: Using Shortcodes + deactivating
Last modified: March 31, 2017

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# Using Shortcodes + deactivating

 *  [Kristal13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristal13/)
 * (@kristal13)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-shortcodes-deactivating/)
 * Hi, I recently updated my wordpress and all plugins.. this plugin worked beautifully
   until now. My shortcodes for multiple other plugins stopped working within pages
   that were wrapped with <!–raw–><!–/raw–>
 * See here: [http://shop.kristalnorton.com/books/](http://shop.kristalnorton.com/books/)
 * Is there a fix besides having to deactivate this plugin? And if I do deactivate,
   are there any risks of my pages/posts changing how they currently look?

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 *  Plugin Author [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * (@whiteshadow)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-shortcodes-deactivating/#post-8980352)
 * Technically, the shortcodes shouldn’t have worked to begin with. The `<!--raw--
   >` tags are supposed to prevent most shortcodes from being executed. This is 
   because the purpose of Raw HTML is to stop the content inside the tags from being
   changed, and running a shortcode changes the content by replacing it with the
   shortcode output.
 * If you want to run shortcodes inside content wrapped in `raw` tags, the best 
   approach is to use `[raw shortcodes=1]...[/raw]` instead of `<!--raw--->`.
 * > And if I do deactivate, are there any risks of my pages/posts changing how 
   they currently look?
 * It depends on whether you’re using any HTML code that WordPress would normally
   modify on output. If you are, there’s a risk that some of your posts/pages won’t
   look right or your code won’t work. If not then you can safely deactivate the
   plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [Kristal13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristal13/)
 * (@kristal13)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-shortcodes-deactivating/#post-8980512)
 * Ahhh okay, thanks for that clarification. Yeah, with an older version the shortcodes
   were still working within the wrap. I replaced the wrap on that page with the
   one you suggested and it works great! Now to find all the pages that I used it
   on…
 * As for being able to deactivate, I do have a lot of html heavy pages that I’m
   worried will get messed up. But I NEVER use the visual editor.. does that make
   a difference regarding the risk? I haven’t updated my knowledge on how wordpress
   handles html in a long while – does it still do a lot of stripping even without
   toggling between the two viewers?? Is there a comprehensive document showing 
   what codes wordpress outputs so I know if I’m using any? I’m usually just using
   basic html stuff.
 *  Plugin Author [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * (@whiteshadow)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-shortcodes-deactivating/#post-8981238)
 * > But I NEVER use the visual editor.. does that make a difference regarding the
   > risk?
 * I also haven’t looked at it in a while, but there are definitely some filters
   that are applied when a post is displayed. For example, even if you don’t use
   the visual editor, WordPress will still add automatic paragraphs (`<p>`) and 
   replace quotes and other special characters with HTML entities (e.g. `”`). I 
   don’t think it will *strip* code, but it might mess up your code or insert additional
   code that you didn’t expect.
 * > Is there a comprehensive document showing what codes wordpress outputs so I
   > know if I’m using any?
 * Not as far as I know.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/).
      Reason: Add blockquotes

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 * Last reply from: [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-shortcodes-deactivating/#post-8981238)
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