Title: Nesting member shortcodes
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Nesting member shortcodes

 *  [lamington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lamington/)
 * (@lamington)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-member-shortcodes/)
 * I haven’t found discussion of this: It seems that nesting some shortcodes causes
   things to break. In the scenario below, the [groups_non_member group=”AllMembers”]
   code doesn’t work and shows as plain text on the page.
 *     ```
       [groups_non_member group="Membertype_B"]
             XXX
           [groups_member group="Membertype_A"]
             YYY
           [/groups_member]
           [groups_non_member group="AllMembers"]
             ZZZ
           [/groups_non_member]
       [/groups_non_member]
       ```
   
 * As an explanatory side note, the [groups_non_member group=”AllMembers”] section
   is used to show the text ZZZ to non-logged-in visitors.
 * Am I doing something wrong, or is it a plugin nesting problem?
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 * Last reply from: [lamington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lamington/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-member-shortcodes/)
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