Remove Empty Shortcodes: Now It Removes the Shortcodes That Were the Whole Point

Back in February, I wrote about Remove Empty Shortcodes 1.0.0 in which the plugin includes the admin scanner, a real test suite, and automated deployment to WordPress.org.

Then a bug report was submitted on the wp.org forums leading to 1.1.0.

The Bug I Shipped on Purpose

In 1.0.0, I cleaned up a batch of false positives such as bracketed text like [at] and [dot] that isn’t really a shortcode by leaning on WordPress’s own get_shortcode_regex().

It was the right call for false positives but wrong call for other reasons. It was also, it turns out, the wrong