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Hello Chuck and thanks for the reply!
I wrote about this problem with [dropcap][/dropcap] on the support forum for my current WP theme and they gave me a PHP function that resolved the issue because the shortcode skipped the text inside the shortcode on the summary of the article on the WP index page…

Here is the discussion and the code

function custom_excerpt($text = '') {
	$raw_excerpt = $text;
	if ( '' == $text ) {
		$text = get_the_content('');
                // $text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
		$text = do_shortcode( $text );
		$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
		$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
		$excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', 55);
		$excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . '[...]');
		$text = wp_trim_words( $text, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more );
	}
	return apply_filters('wp_trim_excerpt', $text, $raw_excerpt);
}
remove_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt'  );
add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'custom_excerpt'  );

Can you tell me if this function can help me resolve the issue with your plugin and if yes, where can I implement this function to make it work… 🙂

Thanks again!

It was unchecked, it works like a charm now, thanks a lot wpsmort!

Have a great day!

Thank you very much bdbrown!

It works like a charm!

I added the function to functions.php and it works!

Thank you!

Hello Bojan,

Thank you for the reply, I will try that on my future posts but I really need a general solution because I have about 200+ posts, most of them begin with [dropcap][/dropcap] and I think that it’s a lot of manual work for me to go back and edit almost every post.

Hello again bdbrown,

Yes, it seems that most of the shortcodes [dropcap], [column] are not ok with the short description, they only work on the single.php page. 🙁
If you begin your post with a [column], the text inside the column will not display at all in the short description… and, as we already know, neither the letters inside the [dropcap][/dropcap]

Thanks again!