Title: Give Shortcode Not Working
Last modified: August 30, 2019

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# Give Shortcode Not Working

 *  Resolved [thirstyjon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thirstyjon/)
 * (@thirstyjon)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/give-shortcode-not-working/)
 * I have created a page in wordpress and am clicking on the “Give Shortcodes” button
   in the editor.
 * When I click on this button, a very thin (I almost missed it) box occurs to the
   left of the edit area with the following message:
 * “ailed to load plugin: give_shortcode from url [https://mytheoreticaldomain/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/give_shortcode/plugin.min.js&#8221](https://mytheoreticaldomain/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/give_shortcode/plugin.min.js&#8221);
 * I am assuming there is an “f” at the beginning that I just cannot see.
 * Interestingly, the error message is only 1 letter wide. In other words, I had
   to cut and paste this vertical message somewhere else to even read it.
 * I went into my FTP program and looked for the offending file.
 * There is no “give_shortcode” folder under the “wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins”
   directory.
 * Anybody know what is going on?

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 *  Thread Starter [thirstyjon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thirstyjon/)
 * (@thirstyjon)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/give-shortcode-not-working/#post-11882100)
 * I have done some further work on this.
 * I used the Health Check and Troubleshooting Plugin from the WordPress Community
   and disabled all plugins but Give and the classic editor.
 * I reverted to the default theme twenty-nineteen.
 * The error still happened in the same way.
 * I did it all in an incongnito browser with no plugins and had the same problem.
 * For added measure I installed Give WP on a totally different site hosted on a
   totally different webhost.
 * Interestingly, I had the exact same problem.
 * So I’m thinking there must be something really simple that I am missing here.
 *  Thread Starter [thirstyjon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thirstyjon/)
 * (@thirstyjon)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/give-shortcode-not-working/#post-11896639)
 * I continued to search and found this thread: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/give-shortcodes-button-generates-error-message/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/give-shortcodes-button-generates-error-message/)
 * It basically says in that thread to make sure to click on the “visual” button
   on the wordpress classic editor, instead of leaving it on “text.”
 * This does appear to solve the problem.
 * Although that thread is a year old.
 * I would have hoped this would have been fixed by now?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/)
 * (@webdevmattcrom)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/give-shortcode-not-working/#post-11899994)
 * HI there,
 * That workaround you mention is not about our plugin — it’s not something we can
   fix. It’s just a matter of how extra markup can be carried over when copying/
   pasting into WordPress.
 * But glad you got it worked out! Let us know if you have additional questions 
   at all.

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## Tags

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 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/give-shortcode-not-working/#post-11899994)
 * Status: resolved