Wont work inside header

  • Resolved strongtyer

    (@strongtyer)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    My rotating testimonial wont work when it is inside a header. It has to be within the entry for it to display. Why is this and how can I fix it? So far it only works if I paste the shortcode in a page. When I put it in my sites header, (not by editing or creating a page) it just displays the shortcode and not he actual testimonials. Same shortcode in both places.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ivycat-ajax-testimonials/

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  • Plugin Author Daniel Gilfoy

    (@dgilfoy)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hello strongtyer,

    For all shortcodes used in template files rather than in pages you need to use the function do_shortcode().

    so for the testimonials you’d do:

    echo do_shortcode('[your_whole_shortcode_here attribute="value"]');

    And so on. Just make sure if you use ” to enclose your shortcode you use ” to enclose your shortcode attributes.

    Hope this helps,

    Daniel

    Plugin Author ivycat

    (@ivycat)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hello strongtyer,

    For all shortcodes used in template files rather than in pages (in WordPress Editor) you need to use the function do_shortcode().

    So for the testimonials you’d do:

    echo do_shortcode('[your_whole_shortcode_here attribute="value"]');

    And so on. Just make sure if you use ” to enclose your shortcode you use ” to enclose your shortcode attributes.

    Hope this helps,

    Daniel

    Thread Starter strongtyer

    (@strongtyer)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks. That’s what I needed to know! I think some of the instructions could be unclear for someone with little experience in php or html.

    Plugin Author Eric Amundson

    (@sewmyheadon)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the feedback, strongtyer. We’ll be working on improving the documentation as time permits. In the meantime, please feel free to post here in the support forum if you’ve got questions.

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