# WPBakery Strip Builder Markup — free WordPress plugin

> Removes WPBakery and shortcode code from auto excerpts, SEO descriptions and your Google product feed, so they show clean text. Your pages stay unchanged.

Source: https://dcarock.com/plugins/wpbakery-strip-builder-markup

- Type: free WordPress plugin
- Price: free (GPL-2.0)
- Version: 1.0.0
- Requires: WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+
- Download: https://dcarock.com/plugins/wpbakery-strip-builder-markup

## What it does

WPBakery saves your pages as shortcodes like `[vc_row]`. Plugins that write text automatically (**excerpts, SEO descriptions, the Google product feed**) can pick up that raw code and show it to the world. This plugin **cleans the text they receive**, so search results, social previews and your product feed show real sentences. *Your pages themselves are never changed.*

 
 
- **Excerpts:** cleans the automatic excerpts in blog lists, archives, RSS feeds and themes. 
- **SEO plugins:** cleans meta descriptions, SEO titles and Facebook & X previews from *Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress and The SEO Framework*. 
- **Google feed:** cleans the product description and short description that *Google for WooCommerce* sends to Google Merchant Center. 
- **Rich results:** cleans the product description in WooCommerce's structured data, the text Google reads. 
- **WPBakery tags:** tags like `[vc_row]` and `[vc_column_text]` go, *the text inside them stays*. 
- **Raw code:** hidden Raw HTML / Raw JS blocks are *removed completely*, so no encoded code ends up in your descriptions. 
- **Other leftovers:** leftover shortcodes from your theme or other builders, HTML tags, `&`-style codes and extra spaces are cleaned too. 
- **Safe:** your posts, pages and products are *never modified*, only the text these plugins receive. 
- **Test it:** "Try it on your content" shows the *before and after* for your own pages, posts and products. 
- **Switches:** one switch per place, *all on by default*. 
- **Snippet replacement:** replaces the `gla_clean_description_for_feed` code snippet and tells you *while it is still loaded, and where*. 
- **Simple setup:** one settings page under *Settings › Strip Builder Markup*. No setup needed.

## Setup

1. **Install & Activate it.** In WordPress go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the .zip and click Install Now, then Activate. Cleaning starts right away.
2. **See the difference.** Go to Settings › Strip Builder Markup and pick a page in "Try it on your content" to compare before and after.
3. **Remove your old snippet.** If the page says your custom script is still active, you can delete it from your theme or code snippets — running both does no harm.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does it change my pages or products?

No. Your content stays exactly as it is. Only the text handed to excerpts, SEO plugins, the Google feed and rich results is cleaned.

### Which SEO plugins does it work with?

Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress and The SEO Framework. All in One SEO and The SEO Framework remove shortcodes themselves, so on WPBakery pages their automatic description can come out empty — but never as raw code.

### Does it work with page caching?

Yes. Clear your cache once after activating so cached pages pick up the clean descriptions. The Google feed updates on its next sync.

### Is it really free?

Yes. Free forever, no sign-up, no ads, and it doesn't track you.

### What happens to my data when I delete the plugin?

Your content is never touched. Deleting the plugin keeps its few settings too, because Arock Toolkit and other versions of this plugin share them.

## Changelog

- **1.0.0** (2026-11-14): - First release as a standalone plugin (the same tool as in Arock Toolkit, with the same settings).; - Replaces the `gla_clean_description_for_feed` code snippet and also removes WPBakery Raw HTML / Raw JS blocks, which the snippet left behind.