Title: Shortcodes Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Shortcodes * Resolved [rdart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdart/) * (@rdart) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/) * My shortcodes won’t work in my theme. I am currently trying to get eShop to work. It doesn’t matter which pulgin I try, shortcodes just don’t work! I sticked to twenty ten and the shortcodes work, so it is obviously a problem with my coding somewhere. * I am new to WordPress and PHP, so I am really lost right now. I would love it if someone could take a look, and I can post some code here as well. I have a deadline for this site of the 22nd, and I have been posting everywhere for the last few weeks to no avail. Please let me know if you can help! * You can see the shortcode problem in action here: [http://www.guilt-free-goodness.com/blog/shopping-cart](http://www.guilt-free-goodness.com/blog/shopping-cart) * Thanks! Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144069) * Ensure that your theme’s single post & page templates are using ``. * Thread Starter [rdart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdart/) * (@rdart) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144078) * Thank you! So far it looks like it is working, now I just have to rearrange some of the shortcodes and clean it up! Thanks! For some reason, my pages were using post_content; ?> so it wasn’t calling correctly. Thanks again! * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144212) * No problem 🙂 * Thread Starter [rdart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdart/) * (@rdart) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144226) * So after organizing it a little bit, it made each post call on the same text, and now the only thing that is working is one pages shortcode. It worked, but now all posts have the same text! * For each page to have the original text, it works using this: post_content; ?> * For the shortcode to work, I used * Is there a way to get both of them to work? The shortcode seems to only working on subpages. * Thank you so much, sorry to bug you again! * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144230) * > now all posts have the same text! * In that case, there is something seriously wrong with your theme. You can confirm this by switching to Twenty Ten to see if that resolves the issue. * Thread Starter [rdart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdart/) * (@rdart) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144233) * It works in Twenty Ten. I wish I knew where the problem was coming from, I will go look through the php again… I don’t know if you would mind taking a look or not, but I really need this problem to go away! On the bright side, everything else works. Thanks again! * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144235) * You really shouldn’t be using `$post->post_content` to display unfiltered content. Added to which, many other plugins will depend upon the_content filter. * Thread Starter [rdart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdart/) * (@rdart) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144236) * I agree, but it was what I was told to use originally. Now that I have done more research, the is the way to go, but for some reason it is blocking out my content in my posts. Would you mind if I emailed you my log in so you could take a look? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144238) * > it was what I was told to use originally * Then someone gave you bad advice. General rule of thumb: always use the_content() or the_excerpt() unless you’re getting into advanced coding for a plugin or similar. * If the_content() isn’t working for you, then something is wrong with your Loops. Try reviewing [http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop) * Thread Starter [rdart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdart/) * (@rdart) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144239) * I totally agree, all of the research is revealing that. I will look into the loop a little more then, and see what I can do to fix everything. Hopefully it all comes together before tomorrow! * Thread Starter [rdart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdart/) * (@rdart) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144246) * Just as an update – I changed over my page/post format to look more like the loop-page.php setup that is in the twenty-ten theme, and after some arranging it looks like everything works now. Thank you so much for your help! Without your suggestion I would not have been able to fix this. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144248) * Glad I could help 🙂 * [sf23103](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sf23103/) * (@sf23103) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144472) * I am having the same problem. Shortcodes do not work (they display the actual shortcode). If I replace `post_content;/*the_content();*/ ?>` with `` then the same content displays for every post! * Any ideas? The following is my single.php file * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code). Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/)]_ Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) The topic ‘Shortcodes’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/) * 13 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [sf23103](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sf23103/) * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-4/#post-2144472) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics