Depends where you are trying to apply them? Widgets, inside theme template files, post/pages etc?
For example to make them work directly from within theme code you need to use the do_shortcode() function:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode
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art42
(@art42)
Hi and thank for getting back to me.
I’m trying to make them work on a Page, I’ve placed it in the HTML yet no luck.
Am I right in saying that I will need to put the following instead;
do_shortcode(‘[example shortcode]’)
You need to have something like:
<?php echo do_shortcode( '[example shortcode]' ) ?>
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art42
(@art42)
Thank you again for gettng back to me.
I place it into the site and i still get nothing.
This is a theme which i put together my self. If it possible that I may have missed out some important coding regarding the matter?
Probably something to do with the shortcode function itself. I would suggest you get the shortcode working so that you can add it to a post/page easily (i.e. in the editor).
Then after you confirm it is working you can use the do_shortcode() function to add it to your page template code.
more concrete details please:
do you insert the shortcode into the content of a page?
or into a page template?
what is the code of the shortcode (probably defined in functions.php of your theme)?
link to your site to illustrate this problem?
