Shortcode being read as string instead of calling the media player

  • Resolved JBMag

    (@jbmag)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, I really like this plugin and I can use it when uploading videos individually.

    But by extending the capability of my localhost site, I need to post multiple videos at the same time. ex. 100 articles should each include a video.

    It will be so tedious when I put the videos manually, then I found another plugin which could help me to import the contents via CSV Format it’s named: “Really Simple CSV Importer”.

    But the problem here is when the value is already imported to WordPress, it simply views the shortcode as “text/string” instead of showing the “media player with play button”.

    I just wonder how we could make it work, the media player only shows up when I click the update button beside the content editor.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/

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  • Plugin Author Kyle Gilman

    (@kylegilman)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    It sounds like a character encoding issue. When you hit the update button WordPress does some filtering to make sure the quotes aren’t too smart and filters some things out. It’s likely that those processes aren’t run when the importer does its work. I don’t know how that plugin works though. Have you tried using a different importer plugin?

    Thread Starter JBMag

    (@jbmag)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for the response. I haven’t tried other importer yet, will you recommend any? I will also do some testing other importer and I will let you know if it works.

    Thread Starter JBMag

    (@jbmag)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Now it works! thanks for the help, i just want to share this for those who are using ACF, I just included this tag: <?php echo apply_filters(‘the_content’, get_field(‘FIELD_NAME’)); ?>

    Plugin Author Kyle Gilman

    (@kylegilman)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Great! Glad to hear that worked. Those filters are important.

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