Strip images from HTML / Strings

Easy and simple:

$content = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/i", " ", $content);

1	$content = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/i", " ", $content);

This came handy when I had a wordpress theme that was showing on the homepage both the featured image and the image in the beginning of the post’s content and I wanted to remove the images which are part of the content.

What I did:

In content.php (the template file which shows the homepage content –

Instead of the default:

the_content('');

1	the_content('');

I used:

$content = get_the_content('');
$content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
$content = str_replace(']]>', ']]&gt;', $content);
echo(preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/i", " ", $content));

$content = get_the_content('');

$content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);

$content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);

echo(preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/i", " ", $content));

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