Title: Shortcodes stopped working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Shortcodes stopped working

 *  [Jasper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucydog/)
 * (@lucydog)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-stopped-working-1/)
 * I had shortcodes working on the site just fine, then I uninstalled and reinstalled
   wordpress because my host had a totally non-standard installation that caused
   a lot of things not to work right. So, when I installed manually the other things
   that were broken were fixed but then my shortcodes broke. For example:
 * This shortcode works:
 * [show_wp_shopping_cart]
 * But this one does not:
 * [wp_cart:Test Product:price:15.00:end]
 * WP also now ignores the “List category posts” plugin. This worked fine before
   the re-install. The shortcode is:
    [catlist id=3]
 * The difference is that the last install was 2.8.6 and this one is 2.9. Also the
   last install was in a subdirectory and this one is in the root. I suspect that
   has something to do with it because when I Googled this problem I found several
   issues but no solutions and they seemed to have the root thing in common.
 * I have tried deactivating one plugin at a time and uninstalled and reinstalled
   both of these plugins, and it didn’t help.
 * I am really pulling my hair out and hope there is a solution.

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 *  Thread Starter [Jasper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucydog/)
 * (@lucydog)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-stopped-working-1/#post-1323682)
 * Oh duh. Maybe I need to get more sleep – shopping cart problem is solved.
 * Someone on another forum pointed out to me that the List Category Post plugin
   stopped working on his site as well when he used .7 and when he went back to .
   6 it worked fine – fortunately I still had the old version on my computer and
   after deleting the .7 version and uploading .6 it works again. Whew.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-stopped-working-1/#post-1323682)
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