Title: Using inside shortcode tabs?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Using inside shortcode tabs?

 *  Resolved [englishw5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/englishw5/)
 * (@englishw5)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/)
 * Hi guys, this looks like exactly what I need… but
 * I’m using shortcodes ultimate for my tabs, and trying to load a product page 
   from ithemes exchange (which may be dynamic I just realized as I type) into a
   tab.
 * my page: ‘englishw5.com/live-lessons-hub/#p2’ under the “Policies” tab which 
   is otherwise empty
 * the page I want to load into the tab content: ‘[http://englishw5.com/product/lessons-in-conversation-private/&#8217](http://englishw5.com/product/lessons-in-conversation-private/&#8217);
   and want to do this for every tab.
 * Is it possible? I can only get your shortcode to show up, or now that I’ve removed
   parameters, nothing shows up.
 * Thank for your help, ron
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/include/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/include/)

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 *  Thread Starter [englishw5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/englishw5/)
 * (@englishw5)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570494)
 * here’s my result, the text “nothing else…” is just a marker before the shortcodee
 * the shortcode is [include id=”209″ the page id.
 * thanks again.
 * [http://englishw5.com/aaaaa-include-test/](http://englishw5.com/aaaaa-include-test/)
 *  Thread Starter [englishw5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/englishw5/)
 * (@englishw5)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570495)
 * sorry, the code is properly closed”]” just forgot it here.
 *  Plugin Author [Michael Flynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mflynn/)
 * (@mflynn)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570637)
 * Ron,
 * 1) on the example page I’m getting a 404 error
    2) If the page is in your wordpress
   database, the include plugin should display it assuming that the theme is correctly
   handling the content body. 3) I’m not familiar with ithemes exchange; but it’s
   possible that the issue is on their end; please post this to their support area
   as well.
 *  Thread Starter [englishw5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/englishw5/)
 * (@englishw5)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570653)
 * Thanks for the reply Michael:
 * odd, I just used the link above to open the page np.
 * Re point 2) the page has an ID so it should be there, but it still may be the
   problem if it’s getting its data dynamically. I’ll play around with it for a 
   while. At the moment it’s deactivated for other test reasons.
 * BTW The same page gives me a lot of problems with tabs plugins anyway – it breaks
   the tabs mainly when I try to content it – until I delete the scripts from its
   content. So it may well be the content is interfering with ‘include’ as well.
 * I’ll be back, thanks
 *  Thread Starter [englishw5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/englishw5/)
 * (@englishw5)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570656)
 * Hi Michael
 * I’ve played around some more and see that “include” works great for normal posts–
   so thumbs up – but the product pages I want to include are pretty proprietary
   and when I use them the way I want, they break most plugins’ functioning.
 * I have tried to “include” by both product id and slug: I get zero display but“
   include” has printed the new content wrap with class etc, just the product content
   itself is missing.
 * Product Pages are the only content iThemes does not enable for consumer-made 
   pages, I’m guessing that it is because there are scripts etc that can lead to
   a snarl of errors if messed with (and also seem to mess with normal WP operations
   when unshielded).
 * That said, you might tend to say “okay that’s their problem not ours” but I will
   provide you the links to the pages for inspection, in the hope you will feel 
   this is an opportunity to see if there is a way to overcome these barriers and
   vastly broaden the scope of “include” customer base (popularity) for your already
   cool product. 😉
 * Cheers
 * site: englishw5.com
    page: live lessons hub [http://englishw5.com/live-lessons-hub/](http://englishw5.com/live-lessons-hub/)
   include-location: inside the accordion tab pane, left side under the small banner–“
   policies: pricing…” currently before the tab and also inside the pane content(
   showing as blank)
 * The actual page I want to “include”: [http://englishw5.com/product/lessons-combination-groups/](http://englishw5.com/product/lessons-combination-groups/)
 *  Plugin Author [Michael Flynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mflynn/)
 * (@mflynn)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570658)
 * Ron,
 * I’ve taken a look, and determined that the issue is in whatever plugin is handling
   the accordion menu.
 * This is not the only issue with the menu either; In chrome ( which I am using)
   it doesn’t even slightly resemble an accordion menu and looks obviously broken.
 * The big issue it’s having is this: it’s not handling shortcodes placed inside
   of it. it needs to wrap the content of the accordion menu with a do_shortcode()
   function. When viewing the source of the menu I can clearly see the shortcode
   in the html, meaning that it wasn’t even parsed and ran.
 * Please test the include plugin on one of your products by placing the shortcode
   outside of any other shortcode wrappers, for instance: make a new page and put
   only the include shortcode on that page and see what happens. If you still have
   issues with it then let me know.
 *  Thread Starter [englishw5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/englishw5/)
 * (@englishw5)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570659)
 * Hi again Michael
 * Thanks again for your lightning fast response. FYI it’s 12-15 hours ahead here
   in Thailand so I appreciate knowing you are tackling this in your evening time.
   Sorry for cluttering up your forum.
 * Okay, clean page with separated examples
 * cheers, ron
 * [http://englishw5.com/aaaabbbb/](http://englishw5.com/aaaabbbb/)
 *  Plugin Author [Michael Flynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mflynn/)
 * (@mflynn)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570660)
 * Ok, so, it appears that the page you want to include is using a custom page template
   to create the page and that the page itself has basically no content; resulting
   in what you’re seeing now. There’s nothing I can do about this; as the only way
   I could handle this on my end would be to include the entire page with another
   copy of the site header and the site footer.
 * This is going to require you to do some custom coding to create a shortcode that
   outputs the content that the custom page template generates – or get on the theme
   creators to do it for you. you’d end up with something like this:
 * `[show_product id=26]`
 *  Thread Starter [englishw5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/englishw5/)
 * (@englishw5)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570661)
 * Hi Michael
 * Pretty much as I suspected, **“include” is working just fine** and after many
   <i>many</i> hours of messing with my goals around the other developer’s page 
   output I was only able to get anything close by including the the footer content
   from their page which messed up everything else.
 * Sorry to distract you, and I do appreciate you quality of service – outstanding.
 * **Include** is going to be a very handy plugin for me from now on.
 * Cheers,
    Ron
 *  Thread Starter [englishw5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/englishw5/)
 * (@englishw5)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570663)
 * Marking as resolved.
 *  Plugin Author [Michael Flynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mflynn/)
 * (@mflynn)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570664)
 * Ron,
 * I’m sorry I couldn’t be of more help, but I’m glad I was able to help as much
   as I did.
 * Please be sure to rate/review the Include plugin to help us out!
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [englishw5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/englishw5/)
 * (@englishw5)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-inside-shortcode-tabs/#post-5570666)
 * Cheers Michael
 * You have been a big help just by being attentive. In fact I have gone around 
   in circles for easily 20-30 hours with this with no clear response from anyone
   before you. Now I can move forward 🙂
 * Your service warrants 5 star, the product is clean and straightforward, easy 
   for anyone to use. That also warrants full points.

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