Multiple Slider Shortcode Failures

  • Resolved sky57h

    (@sky57h)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    My question is 2-fold.

    1. Has anyone had any success with being able to use a media category plugin to produce galleries/slideshows using Elementor widgets? Neither Media Categories Premium nor WordPress Media Library Folders show up when I’m trying to make a slideshow, and I have a lot of content.

    2. I have tried several slider plugins with shortcodes for each album, but none of them work. At first I couldn’t edit the shortcode box at all, then it let me input a shortcode, clicked Apply, then Save. All that shows up is the [ ] shortcode icon.

    List of plugins tried: Metaslider, Smart Slider 3 (which is advertised to work with Elementor), Soliloquy, Revolution Slider.

    Just switched to Elementor and feeling a little desperate to get content back up on my barren pages. Any help would be much appreciated.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Gabor

    (@nextendweb_gabor)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @sky57h!

    With our slider (Smart Slider 3) we made our own Element to appear:

    so in that case you won’t need a shortcode. Does that not work either?

    You could also try the “Text Editor” element to insert a shortcode somewhere.

    If nothing works, then please try to add this to your theme’s functions.php file:
    add_filter( 'the_content', 'do_shortcode' );

    because by default shortcodes aren’t replaced, unless the theme replaces them with a code like this. Use ftp to change the functions.php file and have a backup from it, because if you make a PHP error in it, that will make your frontend and backend blank!

    As I see this is a custom theme, probably made by you, so you might be familiar with the codes it has. If you have something to display your content, like:
    echo $content;

    then you could wrap it around a do_shortcode function as well:
    echo do_shortcode( $content );

    which should replace shortcodes in it too, if the functions.php changement won’t help.

    If nothing works, did your shortcodes changed in your website without Elementor, just by inserting them into your pages or posts?

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