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WordPress: process content outside the loop; get rid of extra <p> tags around shortcodes
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strip-shortcode-ptags.php
/* props to Thomas Griffin
https://thomasgriffin.io/remove-empty-paragraph-tags-shortcodes-wordpress/
*/
$extra_junk = array(
'<p>[' => '[',
']</p>' => ']',
']<br />' => ']',
']<br>' => ']',
'<p>&nbsp;</p>' => '',
);
echo do_shortcode( strtr( wpautop( wptexturize( $section_content ) ), $extra_junk ) );
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added some more "extra junk" to the array

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see also https://gist.github.com/donnamcmaster/849fa1e87f6974565e6bc57fd9f79529 for filtering the_content while within the loop

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