Title: strip_shortcodes_tagnames
Published: December 6, 2016
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘strip_shortcodes_tagnames’, array $tags_to_remove, string $content )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/strip_shortcodes_tagnames/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/strip_shortcodes_tagnames/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/strip_shortcodes_tagnames/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/strip_shortcodes_tagnames/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters the list of shortcode tags to remove from the content.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/strip_shortcodes_tagnames/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$tags_to_remove`array

Array of shortcode tags to remove.

`$content`string

Content shortcodes are being removed from.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/strip_shortcodes_tagnames/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    $tags_to_remove = apply_filters( 'strip_shortcodes_tagnames', $tags_to_remove, $content );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/shortcodes.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/shortcodes.php#L730)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/shortcodes.php#L730-L730)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/strip_shortcodes_tagnames/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [strip_shortcodes()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/strip_shortcodes/)`wp-includes/shortcodes.php` |

Removes all shortcode tags from the given content.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/strip_shortcodes_tagnames/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.7.0/) | Introduced. |

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