I don’t know if this is related to the latest update, but the “Latest News” section on my site no longer ignores shortcodes.
It also seems to ignore the posts’ Manual Excerpt field, so even if I create an excerpt with no shortcode, the code still appears on the front page.
I disabled all the plugins apart from Illdy companion, but the problem persists. Specifically it is a problem with a youtube [embed] element which did not previously appear in excerpts.
This is starting to sound like a bug in the theme, however, I’d like to just have a look at the site, more specifically in the code just to see what’s happening from that end.
Kindly provide me with the URL to your site so that I can have a look.
I’m using a child theme, which makes a few modifications to the css but does nothing more serious. If you scroll down to the latest news section, you can see that one of the posts shows the [embed] code, which it didn’t used to.
Kindly edit that post in text mode and ensure that the embed code isn’t surrounded by any <p></p> tags. Close the paragraph before that and ensure that one is opened after that code. So essentially you should have: