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1. ixwa
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I've never had a use for shortcodes until now so I have to be missing something bleedingly obvious.

   Using a nextgen gallery shortcode in a page like [ album id=1 template=compact ] simply returns the literal string "[ album id=1 template=compact ]". Same thing if I invoke it with PHP:

   <?php echo do_shortcode('[ album id=1 template=compact ]'); ?>.

   I get "[ album id=1 template=compact ]".

   Am I missing something??

2. Chip Bennett
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Try taking the space out from in between [ and album?

3. ixwa
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   ***WOW***

   Well firstly, thanks for the GREAT CATCH. This example was copied directly from the nextgen website...amazing huh?

   I guess that's what you get for a freebie CMS plugin...

   Thanks again.

4. Chip Bennett
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I assume the example code was written as such, in order not to have the shortcode parsed.

5. ixwa
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I thought that's what escape characters are for--particularly for a website documenting examples/usage of tags! (Otherwise how on earth else would a new user know that the format was incorrect?? Bizarre.)

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