Escape code does not works

I have content like this (sorry it’s not in English): https://imgur.com/9zQ3jIg (Picture from WP’s TinyMCE editor)

for escaping shortcode seems to be WordPress standard so I am not sure if it’s WordPress problem or Shortcover V5 problem. But previously, when I type [[sc name=”XXX”]] like in the pictured, it would get displayed as [sc name=”XXX] without the shortcode executing.

I seems to have narrowed down the problem. This problem (escaping with does not work) only occurs when there are shortcode with enclosed contents that come after the escaped shortcodes. Sorry, I am not really sure if this is wordpress or shortcoder bugs. It may have existed before V5 as well.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by innocenat.

You should put that somewhere in your documentation then. Most of the google result for escaping WordPress shortcode will suggest double bracket (it’s included in WP Core since version 2.5: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6518)

I guess I will see if I could modify the plugin. I have way too many pages written with double bracket.

Thank you.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by innocenat.

While I understand that it might be a hassle to support, it is related in a sense that double bracket escape is the standard way of escaping shortcode in WordPress. And it works fine with shortcoder too if no enclosed content shortcode is used.

As for why normal user would do, as I said in my other comment, it is used in in contributor guideline telling website contributors how to use various shortcode to format their posts.

I assume that the enclosed content feature uses custom shortcode parser and that might be hard to fix, and I respect that.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by innocenat.

That doesn’t really work when you have contributor that doesn’t really want to touch the code tab.

I guess I will just not use shortcode with enclosed content, and split into begin and end shortcode instead.

EDIT: Sorry, didn’t realised it works in visual mode too.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by innocenat.

Argh. You will always deny responsibility aren’t you? I am not looking for the fix, but you can’t deny that it is related because it works for all WordPress shortcode EXCEPT in the situation explained above. Having other ways to accomplish the same thing doesn’t mean that another way isn’t valid.

You are probably going to brush it aside again anyway.