Related to "Loop Not Working"

I’ve got a solution here, but just documenting this so that I can find it next time I need it and because it might shed some light on other reported problems.

I had code in a text widget –

[loop category=news count=5 list=true]
<a href="[field url]">[field title]</a> ([field date date_format="M j"])
[/loop]

that had worked once upon a time (for site launched in June).

A user reported a problem this morning — the generated links were going to the page where the widget appeared, not to the actual links for the posts in the list.

I changed it to

[loop category=news count=5 list=true]
[field link] ([field date date_format="M j"])
[/loop]

and all is well.

In the course of debugging, I also found that

<ul>
[loop category=news count=5 ]
<li>
<a href="[field url]">[field title]</a> ([field date date_format="M j"])
</li>
[/loop]
</ul>

worked. (On a different site, I’d seen that wrapping things in HTML did work to force the correct URL to be generated.)

This plugin is, of course, awesome — but it does sometimes make my head swim with all the options.

If you need any additional information, just let me know. Or if there is a list of warnings about where certain codes don’t work, I’d appreciate a pointer to that. Thanks!

Related articles:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-ccs-work-in-page-builder-post-framework-plugin?replies=3

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-stopped-working?replies=2

https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/