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  • October 5, 2016 at 4:35 pm #695597
    galpinr

    Not rendering – just displaying the shortcode in the page. What is wrong?

    In my child theme > functions.php

    function my_shortcode_function(){
	$str = "this is my text.";
	return $str;
}
add_filter( 'show-my-text', 'my_shortcode_function' );

    In a text block of a page i put:
    [show-my-text]

    The page displays: [show-my-text]

    What could cause this?

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by galpinr.
    October 5, 2016 at 5:02 pm #695625
    galpinr

    Found the problem I think. The code in functions.php to add the shortcode needs to be:

    add_shortcode( 'show-my-text', 'my_shortcode_function' );`

    NOT what I had:

    add_filter( 'show-my-text', 'my_shortcode_function' );`

    Don’t know how I ended up with add_filter.

    October 5, 2016 at 5:06 pm #695628
    Yigit

    Hi!

    Yes, that is the issue.
    For more information, please see – https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

    Best regards,
    Yigit

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