Title: Shortcode Block Can’t Do Shortcodes Last modified: February 19, 2019 --- # Shortcode Block Can’t Do Shortcodes * [diywebmastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diywebmastery/) * (@diywebmastery) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-block-cant-do-shortcodes/) * Gutenberg includes a shortcode block, but it seems unable to cope with all but the simplest of shortcodes. I am using one that looks a lot like this. * `[myshortcode src="https:/my-image.jpg" caption="Linked Text"]` * But on saving, the shortcode block complains with “This block contains unexpected or invalid content”. When I hit the _resolve_ button it highlights the single quotes in the shortcode in red and adds further double quotes around them. * If I allow the resolve to go ahead, it replaces the shortcode block with paragraph block which displays the image and no caption. In other words it doesn’t interpret the shortcode properly. * If I change the block to a custom HTML block, it changes the single quotes to double quotes on save. This causes the caption to not appear due to the syntax being invalid. * If I escape the single quotes or use the ascii HTML entity value & # 39 ; then all manner of weirdness happens and I get variously the HTML itself displayed as a caption complete with & # 39 ; displayed, or no caption at all if I attempt to escape with a backslash. * This has been an issue for ages. Please, please, please fix it. - This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by [diywebmastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diywebmastery/). - This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by [diywebmastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diywebmastery/). - This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by [diywebmastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diywebmastery/). - This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by [diywebmastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diywebmastery/). The topic ‘Shortcode Block Can’t Do Shortcodes’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/gutenberg/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=1776042) * [Gutenberg](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gutenberg/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gutenberg/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gutenberg/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gutenberg/reviews/) * 0 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [diywebmastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diywebmastery/) * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-block-cant-do-shortcodes/) * Status: not resolved