Title: nested spots?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# nested spots?

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 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-spots/)
 * Love the concept of this plugin.
 * Any way to get nested spots…like a parent spot with a child spot inside it?
 * I’ve been using the Sniplets plugin for managing reusable code snippets. It works
   great, but no visual editor. So I see a scenario of combining Spots with Sniplets
   as an alternative to nested spots. I’ve been trying to embed a sniplet shortcode
   inside a spot, but for some reason the sniplet doesn’t render. Any ideas?
 * Thanks,
    Jeff
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spots/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spots/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Robert O’Rourke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sanchothefat/)
 * (@sanchothefat)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-spots/#post-2343135)
 * Hi Jeff,
 * Nested spots is something we specifically blocked because of the problem of nesting
   a spot within itself which as you can imagine would have some pretty funky consequences!
 * The spots themselves use the standard loop function like `the_content()` so shortcodes
   should work. Bear in mind however that spots are cached which can break some 
   shortcode output so there may be a better way to do what you need.
 * Try re-saving the spot with your shortcode in and if that doesn’t help try adding
   this to your functions.php:
 *     ```
       define('SPOTS_CACHE_TIME',0);
       ```
   
 * It will effectively turn off the cache.
 * If it still doesn’t work let me know as shortcodes should definitely be ok.
 * Can you post the code for your spot template too if you’re using one?

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