Removing Images from a WordPress Post

Sunday, August 24th, 2008 WordPress

Today I ran across a unique need to remove images from a WordPress post in a specific post loop. Because there is no way to do a “read more” excerpt while taking strict control of the raw content from the_content() I was limited to capturing and manipulating the content from PHP’s output buffer. My solution: obtain the output from the_content() and remove the image tags from the post using preg_replace().

Here is the solution:

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<?php
   ob_start();
   the_content('Read the full post',true);
   $postOutput = preg_replace('/<img[^>]+./','', ob_get_contents());
   ob_end_clean();
   echo $postOutput;
?>
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4 Comments so far »

Lee Whitfield said

September 13 2008 @ 12:41 am

Fantastic, been looking for something like this for a while now. Thankyou
Pete said

November 15 2008 @ 12:43 pm

Thank you!!!!
Vitalsine said

November 20 2008 @ 11:47 am

You are friggin amazing man. Ive been looking everywhere for this!!!
Rich said

December 30 2008 @ 4:38 pm

It’s almost like you read my mind and then created this! Should be perfect for a new portfolio blog theme I’m working on. Thanks man!