Title: shortcode doesn’t work
Last modified: March 20, 2018

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# shortcode doesn’t work

 *  Resolved [lueromat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lueromat/)
 * (@lueromat)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-doesnt-work-52/)
 * Hi Alex,
 * I have been trying to embedd a readme from my github page on my personal homepage,
   but I can’t get it to work. I have deactivated all other plugins, still no success.
   I have been using this shortcode:
 * [embedGitHubReadme owner=”mluerig” repo=”iso-cv”]
 * Do you have any idea about what is wrong?
 * Cheers
    Moritz

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 *  Plugin Author [DobsonDev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dobsondev/)
 * (@dobsondev)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-doesnt-work-52/page/2/#post-10147181)
 * Sounds good! Thanks for working through everything with me! Hopefully it gets
   figured out!
 * Thanks again too for using the plugin!
 *  Thread Starter [lueromat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lueromat/)
 * (@lueromat)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-doesnt-work-52/page/2/#post-10149289)
 * okay, this is reeeally strange:
    I checked the readme of my repo “iso-cv” (the
   one that wouldn’t be parsed) for markdown that could cause the problem, but I
   didn’t find anything. Then I made a new repo (“test-cv”) that was just a copy
   of iso-cv, and used the shortcode to embedd it. worked fine! Then I deleted iso-
   cv from github, and renamed test-cv to iso-cv. I changed the shortcode back to
   iso-cv, but this again wouldn’t work. Now, test-cv has been renamed, BUT using
   a shortcode with test-cv still works while iso-cv doesn’t. I am completely lost
   as to where in this the error lies. How can the shortcode still parse the readme
   from a repo that doesn’t exist anymore – is it still cached somewhere?
 * Sorry for throwing all this at you, I hope it makes sense.

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