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I have a problem with a plugin I developed that registers a shortcode. The shortcode returns a string with valid HTML but some themes seems to manipulate the HTML returned by the shortcode, and I really can't understand what is the reason.

For example, this is the correct output of my shortcode:

<div class="tile">
<a>
    <img src="0.jpg" />
    <div class="caption">
        <p>Kate</p>
    </div>
</a>
</div>

and this is the output I get with some theme:

<div class="tile">
<a>
    <img src="0.jpg" />
    <div class="caption">
        <p>Kate</p>
    </div>
</a>
</div>
<p></p></a></div>

As you can see there is some extra tag after the closing of the 'caption' DIV.

Maybe these themes apply some kind of HTML validation/sanitization?

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  • What's the code you're using to generate the HTML (the function add_shortcode is using)?
    – Morgan Estes
    Jan 3, 2014 at 18:45
  • "some themes" namely?
    – Rarst
    Jan 3, 2014 at 18:45
  • Last theme was themeforest.net/item/… I can't post the code I use but is simply something like: $html = ""; $html .= "<div>"; ... $html .= "</div>; return $html;
    – Darko Romanov
    Jan 3, 2014 at 18:48
  • Does it happen with Twenty Fourteen? Or Twenty Thirteen?
    – s_ha_dum
    Jan 3, 2014 at 20:16
  • It doesn't happen with the TwentyFourteen nor with Twenty Thirteen, it happens with some other themes, like themeforest.net/item/…
    – Darko Romanov
    Jan 4, 2014 at 11:27

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It looks like you are getting caught in some wpautop() replacements. Many people find the defualt WordPress wpautop() filter to be frustrating. So often in highly customized themes, there is a homegrown replacement.

For example, the theme you mentioned has a replacememt for some of the default WordPress filters. You can see a thread about it here... http://kaptinlin.com/support/discussion/1835/disable-automatic-p-tags/p1

The only recommendation I can make is to remove the clean formatting ( indents, newlines, etc. ) and see if that helps. Don't give the filters anything to wrap.

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  • Thank you very much! I see the theme author suggests to edit the sources of the theme... I don't like that at all but at least I know what is the problem.
    – Darko Romanov
    Jan 4, 2014 at 11:38

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