catapultparlor

I abandoned trying to link related posts in the content editor because – as you discovered – I got the feeling that it was an issue with core.

I worked with the designer to instead add related links in a sidebar using http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/view/plugin-reviews/related-links which does include custom post-types.

Here’s a demo on our temporary dev site: http://dev.puppeteers.org/puppetry-journal/journals/spring-2011-volume-62-no-3/

The “In this journal” section is created using the Related Links plugin.

With the first option I’m looking into adding the shortcode_unautop to my shortcode function.

function col1_shortcode($atts = null, $content = null){
   $content = trim( do_shortcode( shortcode_unautop( $content ) ) );
   $col = '<div class="col1">' . $content . '</div>';
   return $col;
}

We’ll see if that works.