Shortcodes in Announcement

Hi,

Sorry that you are having some difficulties during the upgrade. This was listed in our change log, in the hopes that users would read it before upgrading.

The shortcode should work the same way as with any standard page or post. When you added the code snippet for HTML excerpts in your functions.php file, is it wrapped in apply_filters( 'the_content' ). The shortcode is parsed by WordPress via the_content filter.

Using the two snippets in the documentation – I was able to use shortcodes in my excerpt without any issues.

I added the following to my functions.php file

function bartag_func( $atts ) {
	$atts = shortcode_atts( array(
		'foo' => 'no foo',
		'baz' => 'default baz'
	), $atts, 'bartag' );

	return "foo = {$atts['foo']}";
}
add_shortcode( 'bartag', 'bartag_func' );

And used the shortcode [bartag] in the custom excerpt field.

Thanks,
Evan