Title: zotpressInText shortcode not working Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # zotpressInText shortcode not working * Resolved [John Fallows](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john-fallows/) * (@john-fallows) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/) * I cannot get the [zotpressInText] shortcode to work in posts or pages. For example, I have the following shortcodes in the same post: * [zotpress items=”JV8UHUBN” style=”chicago-author-date”] -> WORKS [zotpressInText item=”{JV8UHUBN}”] -> FAILS. The wheel just keeps on turning! Forever! * I am just using shortcodes, no widget on the page. Have tried different themes and deactivating other plugins. Have run WordPress in Debug but no errors noted. Zotpress 6.0.3. (WordPress 4.3.1.) I am trying to run off a collection. In the Browse page, when I try to press Default button on the collection I get an undescribed error. But I am not sure if this is related. Running out of troubleshooting ideas at this end. Help appreciated. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/zotpress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/zotpress/) Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * [hantengUNU](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hantengunu/) * (@hantengunu) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676098) * I have encountered the same/similar issue that did not happen when I posted the content. * Have a look at this: * [http://blog.hci4d.org/hanteng/en/2015/09/try/](http://blog.hci4d.org/hanteng/en/2015/09/try/) * It worked before but now the wheels just keep turning without stops….. * [hantengUNU](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hantengunu/) * (@hantengunu) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676109) * I saw error messages from the console of my chrome browser: * zotpress.shortcode.intext.js?ver=4.3.1:237 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property‘ replace’ of undefined * 237 line goes like this: * var intext_citation_params = JSON.parse( jQuery(“#”+intext_citation_id, postRef). attr(“rel”).replace( /’/g, ‘”‘) ); * Hope it is helpful to take the troubleshooting forwards. * [hantengUNU](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hantengunu/) * (@hantengunu) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676110) * Hello, Just to report that my website has just downgraded the Zotpress plugin to 5.5.5 version and it is working again. * Thread Starter [John Fallows](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john-fallows/) * (@john-fallows) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676111) * Thanks. I will have to find a previous version and try. I am pretty sure it was working properly before the “update”. Sigh. * Plugin Author [Katie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kseaborn/) * (@kseaborn) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676121) * Hi all, * There was a massive change to the code (moving most of the code from PHP to JavaScript) in order to support auto-updating: * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpress-60-feedback?replies=38](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpress-60-feedback?replies=38) * I tried to test all cases I could think of, but there’s been a few surprises. * [@john](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john/) Fallows I will test out your shortcodes and hopefully figure out what’s going on. * [@hantengunu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hantengunu/) Can you post some examples of your shortcodes? * Plugin Author [Katie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kseaborn/) * (@kseaborn) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676136) * Question for all — are you including the required [zotpressInTextBib]? If it’s not there, it fails. If it’s there, it works for me. * [rudfan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudfan/) * (@rudfan) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676139) * [zotpressInTextBib] is there, still, * “uncaught type error: cannot read property ‘replace’ of undefined” in line 237( var intext_citation_params) * Downgrade to 5.5.5 solves the issue. * Plugin Author [Katie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kseaborn/) * (@kseaborn) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676140) * [@rudfan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudfan/) Can you contact me with your API id and key plus the shortcode (or even full text of the page/post) that you’re using? [http://katieseaborn.com/contact](http://katieseaborn.com/contact) * Thread Starter [John Fallows](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john-fallows/) * (@john-fallows) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676141) * Hi Katie. First, let me thank you for a wonderful plug-in. Zotero is a very useful tool and using it with WordPress is a real bonus. * Now, I see what you mean. No, I had not been including [zotpressInTextBib] on any particular post. I have a separate bibliography page on the web site. What I would like to be able to do is citations on each post (where needed) that references to a master bibliography for the whole site. Is that possible? The web site in question is [http://complexity.fallows.ca](http://complexity.fallows.ca) * Plugin Author [Katie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kseaborn/) * (@kseaborn) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676142) * [@john](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john/) Fallows Since the requests are tied to the bib, you’d have to: * 1) Include the [zotpressInTextBib] on every post/page that has in-text citations 2) Hide the output for this bib with CSS if you don’t want it to be displayed 3) Manually manage a separate [zotpress] bib on the master page. Maybe tag items or duplicate items in a new collection on the Zotero side so you don’t have to manually change the shortcode every time. * [tzucker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tzucker/) * (@tzucker) * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676247) * Hi Katie, * Thanks for the great plugin. Zotpress solved my problem with dynamic pages of citations. My problem is I had to convert all the pages I created using the [ zotpress collection_id=”xxxxxxxxx”] shortcode to posts and they stopped working. Even new posts I create with the shortcode no longer work. Maybe it has something to do with the other plugins I use? * Any help would be appreciated. * Links to non-working posts are on this page: [http://thomaszuckerscharff.com/ransomware-citation-library-from-zotero/alphabetical-list-of-malware-variants/](http://thomaszuckerscharff.com/ransomware-citation-library-from-zotero/alphabetical-list-of-malware-variants/) * On the other hand this is a page that works perfectly: [http://thomaszuckerscharff.com/ransomware-citation-library-from-zotero/](http://thomaszuckerscharff.com/ransomware-citation-library-from-zotero/) * Plugin Author [Katie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kseaborn/) * (@kseaborn) * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676248) * [@tzucker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tzucker/) Can you post an example single page? I clicked through a couple links but couldn’t find anything. What I’m seeing in Firebug is that a lot of your plugins are throwing errors (pdf- print, social-media-icon), so it sounds like it’s a larger issue. You can try deactivating your plugins until it works again. * [tzucker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tzucker/) * (@tzucker) * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676249) * This is a post that is not working and was working as a page * [http://thomaszuckerscharff.com/tag/cryptowall-1-4/](http://thomaszuckerscharff.com/tag/cryptowall-1-4/) * This is a test page that is working which I created just now * [http://thomaszuckerscharff.com/test/](http://thomaszuckerscharff.com/test/) * The plugins you mention have been installed ever since I started using ZotPress. The only ones that are new are: - Multi-Column Tag Map - Page-List (which I just deactivated) - WP Hide Post (which works on both post and pages and seems to work fine with ZotPress shortcodes) * There are one or two others which are not active, but are installed. * I have yet to find a good replacement for the pdf print plugin. And I like the floating social media Icons plugin. My son, who is my wordpress guru and one of the writers of PressForward, says there are a couple of problems on my WP site. Some I have fixed others are still problems. * Plugin Author [Katie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kseaborn/) * (@kseaborn) * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zotpressintext-shortcode-not-working/#post-6676250) * Did you check out the Options page as recommended on the other thread? I think this may be the issue as I’m not seeing the normal Zotpress files being loaded. 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