I have a theme that I customized for my site. When I try to run a shortcode in the page/post content nothing happens. It only shows it as text. But when I run the shortcode directly in the php code it works. Is there something I have to enable in my theme to be able to run shortcodes from the post/page content?
Shortscodes and Custom Themes (5 posts)
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agregoryvt
Posted 2 years ago # -
Make sure that you use
<?php the_content();?>or<?php the_excerpt();?> -
Posted 2 years ago #Thanks for the help!
I created a separate function to get the content because the_content() doesn't return anything. Is there anything I need to do in my theme to enable the function?
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Posted 2 years ago #Nevermind I figured it out. It's because I wasn't in the loop correctly. Thanks again for your help!
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the_content() includes some formatting and parsing filters. If you're grabbing raw, unfiltered, content, this will explain why your shortcodes aren't being parsed.
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