{"id":18812155,"date":"2026-02-06T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/shortcode-does-not-render\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:20:15","slug":"shortcode-does-not-render","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/shortcode-does-not-render\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortcode does not render"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi Ollie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am adding shotcode block to a mega menu and then this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#091;product_categories columns=\"2\"  parent=\"16\" orderby=\"menu_order\"]<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It renders across the site, but not in menu. Do you have any suggestions\/ideas. It should display <a href=\"https:\/\/snipboard.io\/8YTWCE.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">like so<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thx <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18812155","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-product-categories","topic-tag-shortcode"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18812155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18812155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18812188,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18812155\/revisions\/18812188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18812155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}