Take a look at the page content in text mode. Sometimes visual mode adds formatting to shortcodes and that can break them. You may need to save the page content in text mode to make sure it doesn’t get formatted..
I had thought that might be the case as well because but I looked and in text editor it looks fine. It looks exactly like this in text editor:
[pdb_list template=”cq” search=”true” filter=’author=- Dwight L. Moody’ fields=’quote’]
Thanks
Looks good, but something is preventing WordPress from processing it as a shortcode. You don’t have another left bracket [ in front of the shortcode do you? That would cause WP to just show the shortcode as it’s doing. Another possibility is that the brackets are actually HTML entities, but we’re not seeing that…not sure how that’s possible.
No, there are no other left brackets or any other code. Its just text and the shortcode.
I also deactivated all my other plugins to see if any of the plugins might be the cause but it still did not work.
I’m completely lost on how this could be happening.
It looks like others may be having issues with other shortcodes as well. Here is a thread I found: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/shortcodes-arent-working-after-upgrade-to-44?replies=6
what I did was copy my shortcode and paste it into notepad, then copied it from notepad and pasted it into the text editor and it worked. Everything in my text editor looks exactly the same but it works. I have no idea how this fixes the issue but it did.
Sounds like there were hidden characters in there…it can happen and it’s confused me several times.
That has happened to me numerous times as well usually I can just spot the issue, but even after realizing that I could fix the problem, I still have no idea what the wrong characters were. I copied and pasted a working version right next to a non-working version (in the text editor) and I still could not see a difference.
Plus, These pages were working before and I have not made any changes.
It seems like something different in the new version of WP.
Anyways, just wanted to share in case someone else has the same problem.
Thanks for your help xnau
