Title: Problems with adding shortcode Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Problems with adding shortcode * [shootingtime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shootingtime/) * (@shootingtime) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-adding-shortcode/) * I’m trying to add shortcodes for my adsense ads and am experiencing problems. Here is the code that I am adding to the functions.php of my Child Theme. * ``` function google_adsense1() { return ' '; } add_shortcode('adsense1', 'google_adsense1'); ``` * Of course I am replacing what I need to with my ads information. When I add the[ adsense1] to the text view of my page and update, the screen goes white. Normal functioning of my dashboard will not resume until I delete the functions.php on the remote server. * What am I doing wrong here? * Thanks! Corey Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Thread Starter [shootingtime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shootingtime/) * (@shootingtime) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-adding-shortcode/#post-4299726) * I am using the Expound theme and my url is [http://shootingtime.com](http://shootingtime.com) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-adding-shortcode/#post-4299729) * That is not the way to handle a script in WordPress. You should be using [wp_enqueue_script(](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script)) with the `$in_footer` parameter. * Thread Starter [shootingtime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shootingtime/) * (@shootingtime) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-adding-shortcode/#post-4299739) * I’ll look into that. Thanks. * Thread Starter [shootingtime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shootingtime/) * (@shootingtime) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-adding-shortcode/#post-4299744) * I will place a shortcode in my pages where necessary. Could you give me an example of what the finished functions.php code should look like? The page you linked looks a little complicated for me. I of course will continue to research. * This looks a little contradictory. * $in_footer (boolean) (optional) Normally, scripts are placed in of the HTML document. If this parameter is true, the script is placed before the end tag. This requires the theme to have the wp_footer() template tag in the appropriate place. Default: false * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-adding-shortcode/#post-4299761) * > This looks a little contradictory. * Sorry? What part are you having a problem with? * Thread Starter [shootingtime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shootingtime/) * (@shootingtime) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-adding-shortcode/#post-4299798) * I just got confused with it saying the scripts are placed in the head. * Esmi, prior to September 27th, I thought wordpress was a place that made newspapers, lol. I understand quite a bit now but am trying to figure out how I can implement adsense shortcode successfully without a plugin. * I understand the suggested method you provided will probably work, but I lack the knowledge to understand how. From what I know, all I would have to do is add the proper coding to the functions.php of my child theme. I attempted that after some research and came up with the error. * Is there a way you could spoon feed me how I should do it? I installed a shortcode plugin which works. I then looked through the files on the server for how they coded it, but couldn’t find it. * Thanks for your help esmi. * Corey Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Problems with adding shortcode’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [shootingtime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shootingtime/) * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-adding-shortcode/#post-4299798) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics