WordPress Plugin – Raph
February 5, 2015The use of shortcodes in WordPress can often end up in a big mess when changing a theme or removing a plugin. Raph is a Plugin which let’s you convert shortcodes to HTML, right inside the editor. That way you can disable the plugin and still have the actual rendered output in your content, without the need for a shortcode.
Shortcodes may be useful, but rendering them “on the fly” can be a performance killer.
Moreover, shortcodes added by themes or by plugins, lock you in with those products, because you if you change theme or uninstall plugins that add shortcodes, your content will be bungled when not lost.
Have you ever desired get rid of a plugin, but can’t because of shorteds? Now you can.
I think this is actually a pretty smart idea! Check it out on GitHub.