Comments on: Using Soft Hyphens to Disable Embedded Shortcode in WordPress or other CMS Web Tutorials

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:02:32 +0000

Yes, that also works. The shortcode has to be registered, otherwise it’s not needed to use double square brackets. So be careful when testing, you must use some registered shortcode, otherwise this trick won’t be needed and all the brackets will appear.

Thanks,
Martin

By: Raphael

Raphael — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:56:19 +0000

Actually, I was in the process of building a plugin around your solution when I found it.

Note that for shortcodes with content, escaping seems to work like this:
[[code]somecontent[/code]]

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:22:30 +0000

Hi Raphael,

that’s a nice find, thank you for sharing!

Martin

By: Raphael

Raphael — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:21:23 +0000

Turns out you can escape shortcodes using double brackets, that is:
[[shortcode]]
I had to dig into Wordpess source code to find that out.