Title: Nesting a Shortcode within your Plugin's Shortcode Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Nesting a Shortcode within your Plugin's Shortcode * Resolved [dplum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dplum/) * (@dplum) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-within-your-plugins-shortcode/) * I’m trying to use a shortcode to cause my video URL to expire, using the S3FlowShield Plugin. I have sent a support request to them and I attached the same image that I’m attaching to this post. However, from what I’ve been able to determine from Google is that a plugin seemingly needs to be programmed to handle nested shortcodes. Is this correct? * Anyway please see the image at [http://screencast.com/t/iqbgBlFLJ](http://screencast.com/t/iqbgBlFLJ) for the attempts I’ve made to do what I’ve described. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/flowplayer6-video-player/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flowplayer6-video-player/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Plugin Author [Noor Alam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naa986/) * (@naa986) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-within-your-plugins-shortcode/#post-6290446) * Hi, So flowshield shortcode is nested inside flowplayer plugin shortcode. In order for this to work their shortcode will need to be parsed first. Do you know the priority set on that shortcode? * Thread Starter [dplum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dplum/) * (@dplum) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-within-your-plugins-shortcode/#post-6290459) * No I don’t — But, I assume that teh source for all WordPress Plugins are revealed when “Edit” is clicked on the plugins setup page. * So I’ve posted the source code for a Flowplayer plugin at [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6272238/FP%20v6%20Plugin.zip](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6272238/FP%20v6%20Plugin.zip) * Can you tell me what changes are needed to make this plugin able to handle nested shortcodes? * Plugin Author [Noor Alam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naa986/) * (@naa986) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-within-your-plugins-shortcode/#post-6290479) * Can you please provide a .zip file of the other plugin? I will need to see how they are registering shortcodes. * Thread Starter [dplum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dplum/) * (@dplum) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-within-your-plugins-shortcode/#post-6290480) * Here’s the plugin link [https://wordpress.org/plugins/flowplayer6-video-player/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flowplayer6-video-player/) * Plugin Author [Noor Alam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naa986/) * (@naa986) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-within-your-plugins-shortcode/#post-6290483) * Thats my plugin. I need to check the shortcode of the flowshield plugin. * Thread Starter [dplum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dplum/) * (@dplum) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-within-your-plugins-shortcode/#post-6290484) * I’m not sure how the plugin works without a license, but here it is [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6272238/S3FlowShield-Plugin.zip](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6272238/S3FlowShield-Plugin.zip) * Plugin Author [Noor Alam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naa986/) * (@naa986) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-within-your-plugins-shortcode/#post-6290486) * Thanks. I tried to find the shortcode in it. But I couldn’t find it. * So I applied some tweaks to my plugin instead. I don’t know if it will work since I couldn’t do any testing. * [https://www.dropbox.com/s/zv0oifw5zukars5/flowplayer6-video-player.zip?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/zv0oifw5zukars5/flowplayer6-video-player.zip?dl=0) * Thread Starter [dplum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dplum/) * (@dplum) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-within-your-plugins-shortcode/#post-6290487) * Thanks for trying but unfortunately this revied plugin does not enable execution of the nested shortcode. * FYI… I tried these two was of coding the nested shortcode (with and without double quotes): 1. [flowplayer src=”[S3URL file=’[https://cvt-genesisword-com.s3.amazonaws.com/ExcelSmart-Intro-Self-Paced-Learning-Approach.mp4′%5D”%5D](https://cvt-genesisword-com.s3.amazonaws.com/ExcelSmart-Intro-Self-Paced-Learning-Approach.mp4′%5D”%5D) * 2. [flowplayer src=[S3URL file=’[https://cvt-genesisword-com.s3.amazonaws.com/ExcelSmart-Intro-Self-Paced-Learning-Approach.mp4′%5D%5D](https://cvt-genesisword-com.s3.amazonaws.com/ExcelSmart-Intro-Self-Paced-Learning-Approach.mp4′%5D%5D) * They both came up with the message Unsupported video — see [http://screencast.com/t/5G3uvZ6v](http://screencast.com/t/5G3uvZ6v) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Nesting a Shortcode within your Plugin's Shortcode’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/flowplayer6-video-player/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=1709974) * [Flowplayer Video Player](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flowplayer6-video-player/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flowplayer6-video-player/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flowplayer6-video-player/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flowplayer6-video-player/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flowplayer6-video-player/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flowplayer6-video-player/reviews/) ## Tags * [nested shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nested-shortcode/) * 8 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [dplum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dplum/) * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-within-your-plugins-shortcode/#post-6290487) * Status: resolved