Hide Broken Shortcodes is a WordPress app, with a 4.5 average rating from 10 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Hide Broken Shortcodes is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Scott Reilly. With a rating of 4.5★ from 10 reviews.
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Hide Broken Shortcodes is a highly rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 10 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.5★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Scott Reilly — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (10) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Hide Broken Shortcodes works
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By default in WordPress, if the plugin that provides the functionality to handle any given shortcode is disabled, or if a shortcode is improperly defined in the content (such as with a typo), then the shortcode in question will appear on the site in its entirety, unprocessed by WordPress. At best this reveals unsightly code-like text to visitors and at worst can potentially expose information not intended to be seen by visitors.
This plugin prevents unhandled shortcodes from appearing in the content of a post or page. If the shortcode is of the self-closing variety, then the shortcode tag and its attributes are not displayed and nothing is shown in their place. If the shortcode is of the enclosing variety (an opening and closing tag bookend some text or markup), then the text that is being enclosed will be shown, but the shortcode tag and attributes that surround the text will not be displayed.
See the Filters section for more customization tips.
Links: Plugin Homepage | Plugin Directory Page | GitHub | Author Homepage
Developer Documentation Developer documentation can be found in DEVELOPER-DOCS.md. That documentation covers the hooks provided by the plugin.
As an overview, these are the hooks provided by the plugin:
hide_broken_shortcode : Customizes what, if anything, gets displayed when a broken shortcode is encountered.
hide_broken_shortcodes_filters : Customizes what filters to hook to find text with potential broken shortcodes.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Hide Broken Shortcodes?
Hide Broken Shortcodes is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.5-star rating from 10 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Scott Reilly.