addisonhall/wpsp_remove_permalinks.php

## wpsp_remove_permalinks.php
<?php

/**
 * Remove permalinks from WP Show Posts output using DOMDocument and DOMXpath.
 * @link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36096834/selectivly-replace-certain-html-tags-via-php-while-keeping-some
 * @link https://techsparx.com/software-development/wordpress/dom-document-pitfalls.html
 */
add_filter( 'the_content', 'gpc_remove_wpshowposts_permalinks', 20 );
function gpc_remove_wpshowposts_permalinks( $content ) {

  // EDIT HERE!
  // Add the ID (as shown) of each WP Show Post entry
  // that you want to affect to this array.
  // That should be all you need to do.
  $which_wpshowposts = array(
    'id="wpsp-123"',
    'id="wpsp-234"'
  );

  foreach ( $which_wpshowposts as $wpshowpost ) {

    if ( strpos( $content, $wpshowpost ) ) {
      $html = new DOMDocument( null, 'UTF-8' );
      $html->validateOnParse = false;
      @$html->loadHTML( '<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">' . $content );
      $xpath = new DOMXPath( $html );

      $selectors_array = array(
        '//section[@' . $wpshowpost . ']//*[contains(@class,"wp-show-posts-entry-title")]/a',
        '//section[@' . $wpshowpost . ']//*[contains(@class,"wp-show-posts-image")]/a',
        '//section[@' . $wpshowpost . ']//*[contains(@class,"wp-show-posts-author")]/a',
        '//section[@' . $wpshowpost . ']//*[contains(@class,"wp-show-posts-posted-on")]/a'
      );

      $selectors = implode( '|', $selectors_array );

      while ( $node = $xpath->query( $selectors )->item(0) ) {
        $fragment = $html->createDocumentFragment();
        while ( $node->childNodes->length ) {
          $fragment->appendChild( $node->childNodes->item(0) );
        }
        $node->parentNode->replaceChild( $fragment, $node );
      }

      // See https://techsparx.com/software-development/wordpress/dom-document-pitfalls.html
      $content = str_replace( array( '<body>', '</body>'), '', $html->saveHTML( $html->getElementsByTagName( 'body' )->item(0) ) );

    }

  }

  return $content;
}
	<?php

	/**
	* Remove permalinks from WP Show Posts output using DOMDocument and DOMXpath.
	* @link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36096834/selectivly-replace-certain-html-tags-via-php-while-keeping-some
	* @link https://techsparx.com/software-development/wordpress/dom-document-pitfalls.html
	*/
	add_filter( 'the_content', 'gpc_remove_wpshowposts_permalinks', 20 );
	function gpc_remove_wpshowposts_permalinks( $content ) {

	// EDIT HERE!
	// Add the ID (as shown) of each WP Show Post entry
	// that you want to affect to this array.
	// That should be all you need to do.
	$which_wpshowposts = array(
	'id="wpsp-123"',
	'id="wpsp-234"'
	);

	foreach ( $which_wpshowposts as $wpshowpost ) {

	if ( strpos( $content, $wpshowpost ) ) {
	$html = new DOMDocument( null, 'UTF-8' );
	$html->validateOnParse = false;
	@$html->loadHTML( '<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">' . $content );
	$xpath = new DOMXPath( $html );

	$selectors_array = array(
	'//section[@' . $wpshowpost . ']//*[contains(@class,"wp-show-posts-entry-title")]/a',
	'//section[@' . $wpshowpost . ']//*[contains(@class,"wp-show-posts-image")]/a',
	'//section[@' . $wpshowpost . ']//*[contains(@class,"wp-show-posts-author")]/a',
	'//section[@' . $wpshowpost . ']//*[contains(@class,"wp-show-posts-posted-on")]/a'
	);

	$selectors = implode( '\|', $selectors_array );

	while ( $node = $xpath->query( $selectors )->item(0) ) {
	$fragment = $html->createDocumentFragment();
	while ( $node->childNodes->length ) {
	$fragment->appendChild( $node->childNodes->item(0) );
	}
	$node->parentNode->replaceChild( $fragment, $node );
	}

	// See https://techsparx.com/software-development/wordpress/dom-document-pitfalls.html
	$content = str_replace( array( '<body>', '</body>'), '', $html->saveHTML( $html->getElementsByTagName( 'body' )->item(0) ) );

	}

	}

	return $content;
	}