Title: Remove Orphan Shortcodes
Author: Meks
Published: <strong>7. Mai 2013</strong>
Last modified: 29. Juli 2024

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Dieses Plugin wurde **nicht mit den 3 neuesten Hauptversionen von WordPress getestet**.
Es wird möglicherweise nicht mehr gepflegt oder unterstützt und kann bei der Verwendung
mit neueren WordPress-Versionen zu Kompatibilitätsproblemen führen.

![](https://ps.w.org/remove-orphan-shortcodes/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1522354)

# Remove Orphan Shortcodes

 Von [Meks](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mekshq/)

[Herunterladen](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/remove-orphan-shortcodes.zip)

 * [Details](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-orphan-shortcodes/#description)
 * [Rezensionen](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-orphan-shortcodes/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-orphan-shortcodes/#installation)
 * [Entwicklung](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-orphan-shortcodes/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-orphan-shortcodes/)

## Beschreibung

This is a simple plugin which automatically hides inactive (orphan) shortcode tags
you have used for previous themes and/or plugins. It uses the_content filter to 
search for shortcode tags which are not active and simply removes them from your
post/page content (note the shortode tags won’t be deleted form your content, they
will just be removed temporarily on your website frontend). It is a great solution
if you want to avoid manual removal of old shortcode tags from your entire content.

Remove Orphan Shortcodes plugin is created by [Meks](https://mekshq.com)

## Installation

 * Upload remove-orphan-shortcodes.zip to plugins, like any other plugin, or upload
   unzipped folder remove to wp-content/plugins/
 * Activate the plugin through the „Plugins“ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

 * For any questions, error reports and suggestions please visit https://mekshq.
   com/contact

## Rezensionen

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/db543a43edf147aecee5c0c31c465e40ebd261c82c93e74e0d223ea03c89789e?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Love it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/love-it-4253/)󠁿

 [syzygist](https://profiles.wordpress.org/syzygist/) 7. Februar 2025

This is one of those great little plugins that does only one thing, but by doing
it, can save hours of frustration and hair-tearing. THANK you for this simple solution
to a very common problem!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f080189793ca2938ce414028a83506770351bed442c112897126685e9949e5c?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Why?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-92/)󠁿

 [lilunai](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lilunai/) 25. März 2023

I needed to temporarily hide some shortscodes and this plugin works great but… it
has also hidden the Rank Math FAQ blocks which are not orphaned, obviously.I hope
that in the next update it will be corrected. Fingers crossed.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Fails with Gutenberg Block array attributes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fails-with-gutenberg-block-array-attributes/)󠁿

 [brumack](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brumack/) 14. Oktober 2022

Any gutenberg block storing an array in block attributes JSON is flagged as a shortcode.
As most blocks using JSON attributes also use render_callback and server-side rendering,
this causes the block to disappear entirely – broken JSON is hard to parse. Ergo,
don’t use this if you also use ACF, because any repeater or relationship field in
a block can cause the entire thing to disappear.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Did nothing…](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/did-nothing-18/)󠁿

 [leroy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/leroytuttle/) 20. April 2022

of the sort

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[You’re Kidding Right?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/youre-kidding-right-2/)󠁿

 [Stef](https://profiles.wordpress.org/serafinnyc/) 16. April 2021

Why would anyone want to leave a useless plugin after the cleaning? Make it so it
cleans and can be deleted. Otherwise what’s the point? SMH

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/75148ead34ef4e9d471f7db7cddee7de7e8f12d75e2127b761dfe814b50c8fbe?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-5620/)󠁿

 [Pencho15](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pencho15/) 20. Juli 2020

Does what it promises and never has created problems. Recommended.

 [ Alle 13 Rezensionen lesen ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-orphan-shortcodes/reviews/)

## Mitwirkende und Entwickler

„Remove Orphan Shortcodes“ ist Open-Source-Software. Folgende Menschen haben an 
diesem Plugin mitgewirkt:

Mitwirkende

 *   [ Meks ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mekshq/)

[Übersetze „Remove Orphan Shortcodes“ in deine Sprache.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/remove-orphan-shortcodes)

### Interessiert an der Entwicklung?

[Durchstöbere den Code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/remove-orphan-shortcodes/),
sieh dir das [SVN-Repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/remove-orphan-shortcodes/)
an oder abonniere das [Entwicklungsprotokoll](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/remove-orphan-shortcodes/)
per [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/remove-orphan-shortcodes/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Änderungsprotokoll

#### 1.2

 * Fixed: PHP notice thrown in specific versions

#### 1.1

 * Optimization improvements
 * Fixed an issue with breaking image captions

#### 1.0

 * Erstveröffentlichung

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2**
 *  Zuletzt aktualisiert **vor 2 Jahren**
 *  Aktive Installationen **1.000+**
 *  WordPress-Version ** 3.0 oder höher **
 *  Getestet bis **6.6.5**
 *  Sprache
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-orphan-shortcodes/)
 * Schlagwörter
 * [content](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content/)[php](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/php/)
   [shortcode](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcode/)[shortcodes](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcodes/)
   [tag](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tag/)
 *  [Erweiterte Ansicht](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-orphan-shortcodes/advanced/)

## Bewertungen

 3.9 von 5 Sternen.

 *  [  9 5-Sterne-Rezensionen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-orphan-shortcodes/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-Sterne-Rezension     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-orphan-shortcodes/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3-Sterne-Rezension     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-orphan-shortcodes/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-Sterne-Rezensionen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-orphan-shortcodes/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  3 1-Sterne-Rezensionen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-orphan-shortcodes/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-orphan-shortcodes/reviews/#new-post)

[Alle Rezensionen anzeigen](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-orphan-shortcodes/reviews/)

## Mitwirkende

 *   [ Meks ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mekshq/)

## Support

Möchtest du etwas mitteilen? Brauchst du Unterstützung?

 [Support-Forum anzeigen](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-orphan-shortcodes/)

## Spenden

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