Title: [Plugin: Meteor Slides] Shortcode not working
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Meteor Slides] Shortcode not working

 *  [mleary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mleary/)
 * (@mleary)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-meteor-slides-shortcode-not-working/)
 * Hi! I love this plugin. However, I can’t get the shortcode to display a slideshow
   in a post. Instead of displaying the slideshow, I get a small black box.
 * Here is a link to the post that has the shortcode in it. [http://www.darientimes.com/5706/darien-democrats-get-cool-and-raise-money/](http://www.darientimes.com/5706/darien-democrats-get-cool-and-raise-money/)
   
   You’ll see the black box under the first photo before the text starts.
 * I’m using WordPress 3.4 with the theme Unspoken by WPShower.
 * I did create a custom template to accommodate a caption, which can be seen in
   the right sidebar at the very bottom. (which is the same slideshow that Im trying
   to display in the post)
 * Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
    -Maureen
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/meteor-slides/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/meteor-slides/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Josh Leuze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jleuze/)
 * (@jleuze)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-meteor-slides-shortcode-not-working/#post-2853519)
 * Hi Maureen, you can add multiple slideshows to the same page, but not the same
   slideshow, so that could be causing some of these problems. Try removing the 
   one in your sidebar and seeing if that helps.
 * There are a paragraph tags wrapped around all the elements in the slideshow that
   you added with the shortcode, this might be caused by them being wrapped around
   the shortcode itself. Switch to the HTML view in the post editor and make sure
   the shortcode is on a line all by itself.
 *  Thread Starter [mleary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mleary/)
 * (@mleary)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-meteor-slides-shortcode-not-working/#post-2853561)
 * Thanks for your quick response! I removed the widget and double checked the HTML
   and am still getting the same result. 🙁 Any other ideas?
 *  Plugin Author [Josh Leuze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jleuze/)
 * (@jleuze)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-meteor-slides-shortcode-not-working/#post-2853594)
 * Either there is something wrong with the custom slideshow template or there is
   a conflict with the theme.
 * I think that there is probably a filter in the theme that is messing with the
   shortcode, but I can’t take a look at the theme code. I can take a look at it
   in the theme editor if you want to [send me](http://www.jleuze.com/contact/) 
   the login info.

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 * Last reply from: [Josh Leuze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jleuze/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-meteor-slides-shortcode-not-working/#post-2853594)
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