Title: Some shortcode doesnt work!
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Some shortcode doesnt work!

 *  [Decision Games](https://wordpress.org/support/users/decision-games/)
 * (@decision-games)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-shortcode-doesnt-work/)
 * I tried to make it so that the text fields/boxes, etc will only be a certain 
   size and length, but none of those short codes work. I even tried the newer ones
   that came with the update. Still nothing. My assumption is that my theme is overriding
   all format changes from the plugin. Is there a way to make the Plugin’s styles
   take precedent over the themes? If it matters I am using a theme called “Multinews”.
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 *  Thread Starter [Decision Games](https://wordpress.org/support/users/decision-games/)
 * (@decision-games)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-shortcode-doesnt-work/#post-6280124)
 * Ok, so maxlength works, but the styles that should make the text boxes and areas
   certain size doesn’t work. I do not have Jetpack enabled, so my guess is that
   its still the theme taking control. How do I allow for the CF7 code to take control.
 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-shortcode-doesnt-work/#post-6280202)
 * Are you sure the theme is overriding? Have you tried switching to another theme?
 *  Thread Starter [Decision Games](https://wordpress.org/support/users/decision-games/)
 * (@decision-games)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-shortcode-doesnt-work/#post-6280205)
 * I am not sure the theme is overriding it, but I cannot test it as it is a live
   site. I do not know why the “size” shortcode will not work, but others will.
 * Below is the page I am trying to make a form for. As you can see it is going 
   the full width, the only way I got around it was by putting it in a table and
   making the width of that acceptable.
 * [http://strategyandtacticsmagazine.com/site/mega-feedback-st294/](http://strategyandtacticsmagazine.com/site/mega-feedback-st294/)
 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-shortcode-doesnt-work/#post-6280254)
 * Yes, the theme is overriding the style of forms. That is the theme’s intentional
   design so if you don’t like it, ask the theme seller or use another theme. The
   size attribute has nothing to do with the visual width of a field, it just decides
   the logical length of characters.

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 * Last reply from: [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-shortcode-doesnt-work/#post-6280254)
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