Title: Multiple Slider Shortcode Failures
Last modified: December 4, 2017

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# Multiple Slider Shortcode Failures

 *  Resolved [sky57h](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sky57h/)
 * (@sky57h)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-slider-shortcode-failures/)
 * 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](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmultiple-slider-shortcode-failures%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Gabor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextendweb_gabor/)
 * (@nextendweb_gabor)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-slider-shortcode-failures/#post-9747370)
 * Hi [@sky57h](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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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 * Last reply from: [Gabor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextendweb_gabor/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-slider-shortcode-failures/#post-9747370)
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