remove empty tags from wordpress shortcodes via a php functon

Question

Looking for a php function (non-jQuery or wpautop modification) approach to remove

from within wordpress.

I tried this but it does not w

Answer 1

What you need is a mix of jquery and php... that is the only working way
that i found to be working really well. i have tutorial on my site but
in order to keep stuff inhouse here goes

The jQuery:
include this in some JS file you already enqueue

jQuery(function($){
    $('div#removep > p').filter(function() {
        return $.trim($(this).text()) === '' && $(this).children().length == 0
    })
    .remove()
})

A shortcode you can later use:
in your functions.php or included file

function sght_removep( $atts, $content = null ) {return '
'.do_shortcode($content).'
';}
add_shortcode('removep', 'sght_removep');

Now you can wrap specific stuff like this:

[removep]
Some text i write directly in wordpress wysiwyg
 <-- this would get removed
[/removep]

This solution requires some know how but it works!
Hope this helps...