removing block quote from post text - Wordpress - php

Question

I have a Wordpress site and I want to remove the block quotes from the post and put just the regular text. (also want to remove any images that are in the text, I just want the regular text)
This code does the OPPOSITE of what I want - takes out the block quotes and posts that. I want it to post the other text and NOT the block quote.
<?php
// get the content
$block = get_the_content();
// check and retrieve blockquote
if(preg_match('~<blockquote>([\s\S]+?)</blockquote>~', $block, $matches))
// output blockquote
echo $matches[1];
?>

Answer 1

What you need is a content filter. Add the following to your functions.php file
add_filter( 'the_content', 'rm_quotes_and_images' );
function rm_quotes_and_images($content)
{
$content = preg_replace("~<blockquote>([\s\S]+?)</blockquote>~", "", $content);
$content = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+>/i", "", $content);
return $content;
}

Answer 2

Try this
add_filter( 'the_content', 'block_the_content_filter' );
function block_the_content_filter($content) {
$content = preg_replace("~<blockquote>([\s\S]+?)</blockquote>~", "", $content);
return $content;
}

Answer 3

Just add this to your code:
$content = preg_replace("~<blockquote>([\s\S]+?)</blockquote>~", "", $content);
$content = strip_tags($content, '<img>');
echo $content;
The way wali hassan sayed is to add following code to your function.php:
add_filter( 'the_content', 'block_the_content_filter' );
function block_the_content_filter($content) {
$content = preg_replace("~<blockquote>([\s\S]+?)</blockquote>~", "", $content);
$content = strip_tags($content, '<img>');
return $content;
}
This overrides the default "the_content()" function so in you page template you only need to call:
the_content();