Slider shortcode showing, but no slider

  • Resolved mpoyner

    (@mpoyner)


    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    For some reason tonight, the slider stopped showing up. I all of a sudden had it displaying the shortcode instead of the slider itself.

    You can see my test site here: http://69.195.124.88/~bridgeo9/

    I am currently upgraded to the latest beta version of the plugin, but I was actually not when I first noticed this. I just went ahead and updated to see if it would fix the problem.

    I had been playing with a few other plugins so I tried disabling the ones that I had either upgraded or been working with, but that didn’t fix the issue.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ml-slider/

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  • Thread Starter mpoyner

    (@mpoyner)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    I just disabled all other plugins to be sure. Didn’t fix anything.

    matchalabs

    (@matchalabs)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    Can you try changing themes? Pretty sure that’ll be the issue.

    Doesn’t look to be an issue with Meta Slider itself as the preview is working (the preview is just a simple page that runs the shortcode)

    http://69.195.124.88/~bridgeo9/wp-content/plugins/ml-slider/preview.php?slider_id=907

    Regards
    Tom.

    matchalabs

    (@matchalabs)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    Just spotted it looks like you’ve put the shortcode in a Widget. Widgets don’t actually process shortcodes, but its easy to make them do so, have a look here:

    http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-add-shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets

    tldr; add this to your functions.php file 🙂

    add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

    Regards
    Tom.

    Thread Starter mpoyner

    (@mpoyner)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    That’s weird? It’s always been a shortcode inside of widget, and it worked for at least the past week. Strange.

    I put in the code and it works now. Very odd, because this isn’t the only shortcode that I’ve called into widgets. And they all have worked for a few weeks now. Then this one all of a sudden doesn’t work anymore. Very odd.

    matchalabs

    (@matchalabs)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Maybe another plugin was effectively adding that code for you, or a different theme was. Either way, glad its working now 🙂

    Regards,
    Tom

    Thread Starter mpoyner

    (@mpoyner)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    ahh, yeah. That’s probably it. I deleted a few that I wasn’t using last night. Never though removing a plugin would break something. Usually the other way around.

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