can’t get Pinterest board to display w/in a PAGE

  • Hello there.

    I’m not the most technically competent person, perhaps you can help.

    I’ve managed to get the widget (display a Pinterest board) working on my sidebar. So far, so good.

    But what I want to do is display Pinterest things (a board, or a pin, etc.) inside a PAGE or a BLOG POST, not in a widget area like the sidebar.

    So I looked at the “settings” for the widget, and I’m trying to make sense of it.

    Firstly, the “General” section:

    What does it mean to “Disable the output of pinit.js”? This is Sanskrit, to me. Should I just leave it unchecked?

    Secondly, I am baffled by the “Shortcode Help” section (for “Follow Button”, “Pin Widget”, “Board Widget”, and “Profile Widget”).

    To take the example for “Board”, it shows the following:

    This also makes little sense to me. I’m a WordPress newbie (not a computer programmer) and I don’t understand what shortcodes are, or how to use them.

    So I tried putting the characters “[pin_board]” (not including the quotes) into my Page, and nothing happens. When i preview the Page, I don’t even see those characters. There’s nothing.

    Hmm… well, the widget Settings also say:

    “Use the function <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[pin_board]’); ?> to display within template or theme files.”

    Here, too, I don’t know what to do.

    So, I’m stuck. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

    Please don’t suggest I should just go back to WordPress.COM instead of self-hosted WordPress, because I really need to stick with self-hosted.

    Muchos gracias!

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