Title: User-Profile shortcode not working
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# User-Profile shortcode not working

 *  Resolved [RLL18](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rll18/)
 * (@rll18)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-profile-shortcode-not-working-1/)
 * I’ve seen other people have the same issue, but it seems that once they found
   the solution to their problem they do not wish to share how they resolved it.
   My user-profile page only shows the shortcut on the page and not the profile.
   All other shortcodes (that I’ve tried) are working so far. What am I doing wrong?
 * [http://rheanna.net/profile/](http://rheanna.net/profile/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/front-end-only-users/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/front-end-only-users/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
 * (@etoilewebdesign)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-profile-shortcode-not-working-1/#post-7407928)
 * Hi RLL,
 * Getting a blank page is normal when you directly visit the page on which the [
   user-profile] shortcode is placed. It acts as a placeholder that builds the profile
   page when it is called for a specific user. For example, you might have a page
   that lists users with the [user-list] shortcode. In this shortcode you can include
   the “user_profile_page” attribute, like this: [user-list user_profile_page=”[http://url.of.your.profile.page”%5D](http://url.of.your.profile.page”%5D).
   Replace the URL with the URL of the page on which the [user-profile] shortcode
   is placed. This way, when you click on someone in the user list, it will bring
   you the profile page, with the correct URL parameter added (it should add something
   like “/?User_ID=1” to the end of the URL). Could you please give this a try and
   see if it works.
 * Thank you
 *  Thread Starter [RLL18](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rll18/)
 * (@rll18)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-profile-shortcode-not-working-1/#post-7408028)
 * I tried exactly what you said and I still SEE the shortcode on the page. No dice.
   Any other suggestions?
 *  Plugin Contributor [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
 * (@etoilewebdesign)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-profile-shortcode-not-working-1/#post-7408035)
 * Hi RLL,
 * Is it possible that you are using another registration plugin?
 * In order to use the shortcode, your users should be within the front-end users
   plugin, and not from another plugin. We have visited your login and registration
   pages, and it appears that it is not the Front-End Only Users that has been used
   on both.
 *  [adamzea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamzea/)
 * (@adamzea)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-profile-shortcode-not-working-1/#post-7408048)
 * I’m also testing the Font-End Only Users plug-in, and having [user-profile login_necessary
   =’no’ ] on a page, displays only that shortcode even when a User ID query string
   is passed to it: [http://www.biotechceosummit.com/view-participant-profile/?User_ID=1](http://www.biotechceosummit.com/view-participant-profile/?User_ID=1)
 * I’ve disabled all other non-essential plug-ins, but the problem remains. I am
   not using any login or registration pages as I don’t need any of those. I just
   want to import a list of participants, display that list on a page, and have 
   their names link to a profile with a picture.
 * How do we get this to work? I don’t want to purchase it if it’s going to have
   the same problem.
 *  Plugin Contributor [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
 * (@etoilewebdesign)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-profile-shortcode-not-working-1/#post-7408049)
 * Hi Adam,
 * I noticed that the quotes around the “no” of the login_necessary attribute look
   off. Could you please try switching these out for either regular single or double
   quotes?
 * Example:
 *     ```
       [user-profile login_necessary='no']
       ```
   
 * or
 *     ```
       [user-profile login_necessary="no"]
       ```
   
 *  [adamzea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamzea/)
 * (@adamzea)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-profile-shortcode-not-working-1/#post-7408050)
 * Neither of those changed anything. It’s still writing just the shortcode instead
   of loading data associated with the query string ID.
 * [user-profile login_necessary=’no’]
 * or
    [user-profile login_necessary=”no”]
 * The list page works fine: [http://www.biotechceosummit.com/participants-list/](http://www.biotechceosummit.com/participants-list/)
   with this short code:
 * `[user-list login_necessary='No' display_field='First Name,Last Name' user_profile_page
   ='http://www.biotechceosummit.com/view-participant-profile/']`
 *  Plugin Contributor [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
 * (@etoilewebdesign)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-profile-shortcode-not-working-1/#post-7408051)
 * Hi Adam,
 * Would you be able to email us at [contact@etoilewebdesign.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-profile-shortcode-not-working-1/contact@etoilewebdesign.com?output_format=md),
   so we can do some more in-depth troubleshooting and help you resolve this issue
   more quickly? Please reference this post when you email us.
 * Thank you
 *  [G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glienhard/)
 * (@glienhard)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-profile-shortcode-not-working-1/#post-8722149)
 * I was having this same issue but got it working with your suggestions above.
 * I would suggest a better documentation for this shortcode. Reading everything,
   there are no clues that this is how the user-profile shortcode is used.
 * I would also suggest that on this page, [http://www.etoilewebdesign.com/plugins/front-end-only-users/documentation-front-end-only-users/](http://www.etoilewebdesign.com/plugins/front-end-only-users/documentation-front-end-only-users/)
   and this document [http://www.etoilewebdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/FrontEndOnlyUserPluginDocument.docx.pdf](http://www.etoilewebdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/FrontEndOnlyUserPluginDocument.docx.pdf)
   all the options for each shortcode be listed.
 * Thanks!

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