Title: jetpack mobile theme shortcodes
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# jetpack mobile theme shortcodes

 *  [cedialogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cedialogs/)
 * (@cedialogs)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-mobile-theme-shortcodes/)
 * I have shortcodes defined in functions.php for my theme that fail only in mobile
   devices and only when the jetpack mobile theme is activated.
 * This forum says the shortcode definitions can be added to functions.php in the
   mobile theme folder, but there is no mobile theme subfolder in the themes folder.
   I presume there is a file somewhere in jetpack where shortcode definitions can
   be added, so can anyone tell me what it is – or how to accomplish this simple
   task?

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 *  Thread Starter [cedialogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cedialogs/)
 * (@cedialogs)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-mobile-theme-shortcodes/#post-8547589)
 * This is an addendum to my “jetpack mobile theme shortcodes” post. It appears 
   that shortcode value substitution may be exacerbated by a very fundamental design
   flaw in WordPress. It appears that the processing of shortcode substitutions 
   is not recursive.
 * This means that any embedded shortcodes appearing between a shortcode opening
   tag and a shortcode closing tag are not processed. As long as shortcode opening
   tags and shortcode closing tags are allowed in the system it appears that the
   text between them must be processed recursively to perform the requested value
   substitution. Am I right? If I am right, the failure to recursively process the
   text between shortcode opening and closing tags is a serious design flaw in WordPress.
 *  [Ron DeMena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdemena/)
 * (@rdemena)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-mobile-theme-shortcodes/#post-8874669)
 * I am not experiencing the same issue. This is an annoying situation. I have installed
   the Elegant Themes current Divi Theme and it works just fine with Mobile when
   I turn off Jetpack. When I enable jetpack, it no longer processes the short codes.
   I think this is a JetPack issue. Arguably it could be a theme issue too so I 
   have posted this notice there too.

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 * Last reply from: [Ron DeMena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdemena/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-mobile-theme-shortcodes/#post-8874669)
 * Status: not resolved

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