Title: Shortcode not working in cells Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Shortcode not working in cells * Resolved [Zebra10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zebra10/) * (@zebra10) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/) * Hi Tobias, * I have read some of the posts regarding this subject, but I cannot make this shortcode work within the wp-table reloaded cells. * **This is the plugin with the shortcode:** [](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variables-eg-price-into-loads-of-posts) * **And this is the line that I added to my themes functions.php:** add_filter(‘ wp_table_reloaded_cell_content’, ‘showPrice_display’); * **This is my site that I am testing one:** [](http://prismobilen.dk/htc-hero/) * As you can see, the shortcode does not return the value, but only the shortcode tag (it works fine inside posts). * Hope you can help me out (again):) * Best regards Brian Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Thread Starter [Zebra10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zebra10/) * (@zebra10) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254261) * Sorry, something went wrong with the links. Please take a look at these instead: * Plugin with shortcode – [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variables-eg-price-into-loads-of-posts](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-variables-eg-price-into-loads-of-posts) * My test site – [http://prismobilen.dk/htc-hero/](http://prismobilen.dk/htc-hero/) * This is the line I added to my themes functions.php – add_filter(‘wp_table_reloaded_cell_content’,‘ showPrice_display’); * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254339) * Hi, * everything what you did seems to be correct, I can’t really spot anything that might be causing this… * Have you really activated that “Show Price” plugin? And have you really inserted the `add_filter(...)` code into the “functions.php” of the active theme (and not e.g. into a “function.php” which some themes also have)? * Can you try again with the WordPress Default theme? * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [Zebra10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zebra10/) * (@zebra10) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254425) * Hi Tobias, * I have doubled checked this: * The “Show Price” plugin is activited, and working perfect in posts and pages. * I have added the add_filter(…) code into the themes functions.php * I have tried doing the same with the default theme – but still no luck. * Im am not sure, if I am putting the add_filter(…) code in the correct line of the functions.php file – could you please check if I am doing it right, in this snippet of my functions.php: * * add_filter(‘wp_table_reloaded_cell_content’, ‘showPrice_display’); * * Regards Brian * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254429) * Hi, * ah, thanks for posting the code snippet. * You will need to put the code into a PHP part of the code. The best place is at the end of the file, before the closing `?>` PHP bracket. Just insert a new line there and paste the code there. * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [Zebra10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zebra10/) * (@zebra10) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254432) * Hi again, * I tried this but still no luck: * * Regards Brian * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254433) * Hi Brian, * I don’t see why this is should not be working… * If the same change does not even work in the Default Theme, it must be something with the way how those custom Shortcodes are defined. It might be a good idea to use the regular Shortcode API in that Show Prices plugin… * It could also be a thing in your theme, as that line * ``` edit_comment_link(__($translation_comment_edit)) ``` * also will never work (due to the way the WordPress translation system works). It is not that specific line that is breaking things here, but it’s a hint that there might be other things in the theme that are not coded cleanly and lead to problems like the one we observe here. * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [Zebra10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zebra10/) * (@zebra10) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254434) * Hi Tobias, * Thanks for being so patient with me. I can´t get it working in the default theme either, so I think I will try changing the plugin, so that it uses the regular Shortcode API as you mentioned. * Thanks for your time, and for a great plugin! * All the best Brian * Thread Starter [Zebra10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zebra10/) * (@zebra10) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254472) * Hi again, * Now it works! This is what i dicovered: * It seems that to make wp-table-reloaded “discover” any changes in the “Show Price” plugin, I need to update/save the table containing the shortcode. * The result of this is, that if I change the value of the shortcode in the plugin, it does not show in the table before I update this – even though I havent maked any changes in it. * Is there any way around this? * Regards Brian * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254474) * Hi Brian, * yes, that’s the result of the the table caching feature. You can change this behavior by turning off the “Cache Table Output” checkbox on the “Edit” screen of the table. * But now, how did you get the Shortcodes to work in the first place? Did you change them to use the regular API? * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [Zebra10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zebra10/) * (@zebra10) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254477) * Hi Tobias, * No i did not change the shortcodes. I think that what I did wrong, was not updating the table, after I put the “add_filter” code in the php part of the functions. php * But now it acts just like i want it to. * Once again, thanks for being so helpfull! * All the best Brian * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254479) * Hi, * ah, yes, that could be… * Should have thought about the caching earlier, sorry about that. But great to hear that it works now! 🙂 * Best wishes, Tobias Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘Shortcode not working in cells’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/wp-table-reloaded_f7dcd3.svg) * [WP-Table Reloaded](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-table-reloaded/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-table-reloaded/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-table-reloaded/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-table-reloaded/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-table-reloaded/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-table-reloaded/reviews/) * 11 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-in-cells/#post-2254479) * Status: resolved