removing block quote from post text - Wordpress

Question

I have a Wordpress site and I want to remove the block quotes from the post and put just the regular text. (also want to remove any images that are in the text, I just want the regular text)

This code does the OPPOSITE of what I want - takes out the block quotes and posts that. I want it to post the other text and NOT the block quote.

<?php
        // get the content
        $block = get_the_content();

        // check and retrieve blockquote
        if(preg_match('~<blockquote>([\s\S]+?)</blockquote>~', $block, $matches))

        // output blockquote
        echo $matches[1];
?>  

Answer 1

What you need is a content filter. Add the following to your functions.php file

add_filter( 'the_content', 'rm_quotes_and_images' );
function rm_quotes_and_images($content) 
{
   $content = preg_replace("~<blockquote>([\s\S]+?)</blockquote>~", "", $content);
   $content = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+>/i", "", $content);          
   return $content;
}