The use of parenthesis in a caption is confusing Kirby. I understand why. Consider the following. (image: lobster-boat-blockade.jpg caption: From Left to Right: Jay O'Hara (holding photo), Attorney Matt Pawa (speaking to reporters)) The parenthesis in the caption are closing the “shortcode”. I co…

Unfortunately, there still is no way to escape parenthesis inside Kirbytags, at least not any I know of. So, you can’t use parenthesis inside Kirbytags. A work around would be to use some other characters like square brackets and replace those with a Kirbytext post filter, but as you said, it’s more…

This issue has come up a few times before and there was a fix, but that fix was removed again because it wasn’t reliable. See this topic for workarounds and discussion.

This is not working with Kirby 3. Any suggestion? Thanks

OK I solve it by adding caption meta field to image so image kirbytag get it from…

So I’m not sure this is the most efficient way of doing it but this solution seems to be working in my tests # Fix the () nested inside the kirbytags 'kirbytags:before' => function ($text, array $data = [], array $options = []) { // KirbyTags have not been parsed $text = preg_replace_callb…

How/Where did you include this snippet? I tried as a plugin but couldn’t get it to work (new to Kirby!)

@parislettau Which version of Kirby are you using? The solution in this thread is for Kirby 2 and the syntax and way to include plugins has changed.

@texnixe thanks for quick response! I’m using Kirby 3 – is there a solution for Kirby 3?

For Kirby 3 you can use a kirbytags:before hook: For example, you could add this hook in config.php: 'hooks' => [ 'kirbytags:before' => function ($text, $data, $options) { // KirbyTags have not been parsed $text = preg_replace_callback('/$(?:[^()]+|(?R))*+$/', functio…

Parenthesis in image caption is jackin' things up

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