Doesn’t my solution seem like a hack, likely to break in the future since we haven’t addressed the source of the problem?

$content = str_replace('<p>[/av_icon_box]</p>
<p>[/av_one_third][/av_section]</p>', '', $content);

Hi Victoria,

I have now tried both solutions on the post you mentioned, and the shortcodes still appear. Furthermore, the “show just excerpts” solution I saw referred to the Search Relevance plugin, which I am not using. How would “show just excerpts” be used in a default situation like mine? Any plans to get this working with the new WordPress 5 editor?

For now I am manually doing:

$content = str_replace('<p>[/av_icon_box]</p>
<p>[/av_one_third][/av_section]</p>', '', $content);

But this is obviously not future proof.

Thanks.

Sure, see below.