shortcode should not be executed

  • Resolved hupe13

    (@hupe13)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hello Andi,

    I would like to show some WordPress shortcode in a Enlighter block “Generic Highlighting”. On the same page I would show the executed shortcode also. But I do not succeed. It works, if I apply it on individually pages. I use shortcode in the Enlighter block and [shortcode] as a shortcode block.
    If both is on one page, the shortcode is executed also.

    How can I show it on one page? Is this possible?

    Thank you very much.

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  • Plugin Author Andi Dittrich

    (@andi-dittrich)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hi @hupe13 ,

    could you please provide a screenshot from your editor/post ? the forums seems to replace some content.

    within the codeblock, you have to escape the square brackets – otherwise the shortcode is still processed by WordPress

    Thread Starter hupe13

    (@hupe13)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    I tried to use two brackets, [[ or ]], this works if I use only Enlighter on the page, but not necessarily if I use the shortcode on the same page. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
    Escaping the brackets [ and ] with a backslash \ does not work either.

    It works, if I have a space after the opening bracket [ . But if someone copies this to apply this – the code doesn’t work without deleting the space.

    Plugin Author Andi Dittrich

    (@andi-dittrich)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    you cannot escape shortcodes in wordpress with backslashes (the issue is not Enlighter related). just use the html escape sequences & #91;shortcode& #93;

    Thread Starter hupe13

    (@hupe13)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    I was right, a [ must be escaped with [, see https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Shortcode_API#Escaping. But I had a mistake with enclosing shortcodes. Another reason was that an own shortcode was faulty, there was a second do_shortcode in it.

    Plugin Author Andi Dittrich

    (@andi-dittrich)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    ok, great to know!

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