Title: Error when adding shortcode to post or page.
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error when adding shortcode to post or page.

 *  [carloscardenas.me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carloscardenasme/)
 * (@carloscardenasme)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-adding-shortcode-to-post-or-page/)
 * Hi all
 * I’ve been working with this plugin in a few projects and this is the first time
   this ever happened to me.
 * The plugin just stopped working. I did try and upgrade/reinstalling the plugin
   with no luck so far, everytime I try to add a shortocode I get an error like
 * Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [youtube url=”[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJn0hwBZ9Fs”%5D](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJn0hwBZ9Fs”%5D)
 * Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [lightbox type=”inline” src=”[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJn0hwBZ9Fs”%5D%5Bbutton%5D](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJn0hwBZ9Fs”%5D%5Bbutton%5D)
   Click Here to Watch the Video [/button][/lightbox]
 * I’ve tryied a lot of things.
 * Please help! I don’t know what to do.
 * Forgive my bad english.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/)

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 * Last reply from: [carloscardenas.me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carloscardenasme/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-adding-shortcode-to-post-or-page/)
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