griftim

I have found the problem, and it’s my own omission. I thought I had enabled magic tags in shortcodes, but in fact had only enabled shortcodes in templates in this site (had enabled magic tags in another, related site).

I followed the guide here, https://docs.pods.io/troubleshooting-pods/pods-constants-for-wp-config/ and added define('PODS_SHORTCODE_ALLOW_EVALUATE_TAGS',true); to my wp-config file. Now everything works.

Hi Geoff. Apologies for the delay in replying.

Does anything deserve a 5 star rating? That would make it perfect and never in need of developing – and a bit boring too 🙂 I could’ve given an extra half star maybe

I really like the plugin. For a free plugin, it does an amazing job without fuss. I think my complaint more relates to the way WordPress handles things and perhaps to an extent, developers are bound by those rules. I am relatively new to WordPress. I have used ExpressionEngine for a long time and still prefer it personally but have taken up WordPress because that is what some clients insist on. One of the things I love about EE is the different way they use templates and the fact that I can easily build my own templates using ordinary html with php if I want and I can put my content (including dynamic content) anywhere I like. I can’t do that easily in WordPress. I know I can do it by digging into WP templates and php but I don’t want to do that and I kind of resent having to do it just to place content where I want. Eg: I know from investigating that the month view in The Events Calendar is very responsive and will ‘minify’ nicely into something very closely resembling the mini calendar available as a short code in Pro (nice job on that btw) . But I can’t take the month view and stick it in a sidebar or a 50% column or a footer- at least not easily. In fact, I can’t really put a calendar where I want at all, only a list of events in a widget. The typical WordPress plugin behaviour of giving some plugins a default path e.g.: /events or /forums without enabling me to easily create and specify a custom template (emphasis on easily – I know it is possible) is really annoying and counterintuitive to me.

I don’t object to paying a premium for a great plugin at all and am going to spring for a Pro licence this week for my current project as I need recurring events and I really want that mini calendar. To make the free version really great for me I really just want the ability to control exactly where I place my content. Even just two short codes, one for a list of events and one for a calendar would be brilliant.

Thanks for the response. I hope this helps.

Tim