[Plugin: SlickQuiz] Quiz Not Showing in Post

@jewlofthelotus – Thank you for your quick response and your efforts. I’ll await your reply next week. Have a good weekend.

Hey @rrackow – can you paste me the shortcode that you’re using to embed the quiz? It seems like there might be a minor syntax issue that my script isn’t accounting for.

@jewlofthelotus – [slickquiz id=1]

@rrackow – it looks like the quiz is within a sidebar widget – is it the standard WordPress Text widget?

Did you also add the following line to your theme?


add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode' );


@jewlofthelotus – yes, currently the test I was running is in a standard WP text widget.

As for the theme, I did not install it, I was just asked to see why it was not working. Let me check the theme. I doubt it’s there, exactly where should it be placed?

@rrackow – you could place that line at the top of index.php or functions.php, for example.

Hi @jewlofthelotus, first thanks for developing and sharing this quiz plugin! It’s awesome!

Second, mine is not displaying in the post : ( I’m having the same issue that thebusybibliophile did. Would you be able to help? I need to get this posted today! I’m not sure if I can disable the existing plugins if those are causing a problem, but I can check.

Here is the source code for the post preview page:
https://pastebin.com/qSTZCyB5

Thank you!!!

@jewlofthelotus – As I expected I did not find it listed anywhere, so I added first to function.php in the theme folder and refreshed the page with no change. So I then removed it and added it to the index.php page inside the theme folder and still had the same result as before. I’m sure it’s something simple just not finding it.

Hi @jessdoodled! Thanks for trying out the plugin – hopefully we can get it working for you!

I took a look at your preview page and it looks like a plugin call google-analyticator is breaking the page before the quiz code can run. So it’s likely if you disabled that one that the quiz would load.

It’s also likely that this google analytics plugin isn’t working at all and probably hasn’t for a while.

@rrackow – could you add it to one of those files again and either send me the source in a pastebin or let me know so I can refresh the page? I’d like to see if any errors cropped up that might be blocking it.

Thanks for all your help and patience figuring this out!

@jewlofthelotus – Okay, the html source is https://pastebin.com/tyhv6twc, the site is in my first post. Thank your for your time and patience, I really appreciate it. Do you require the function.php source as well?

@jewlofthelotus, that worked alright! Thank you for checking on that. I’ll have to see about finding another analytics plugin.

I’m not sure if there would be a fix for this or if I’ll just have to rewrite the quiz, but I went in to edit my quiz (14 questions), and none of my answers, questions or info are there, just a blank form. If there anyway to recover that info? It’s odd because it still works and previews just fine.

And would this be a style issue with my blog, or is this native to the plugin… any answer I have that spans more than one line, knocks the text down below the answer bubble. See: https://skitch.com/jessmpatterson/emny4/how-much-do-you-know-about-your-food-and-one-degree-take-our-quiz-one-degree-organic-foods

Thanks again, really appreciate the help!

@jessdoodled – glad to hear you got it working!

As for the broken edit page – can you take a look at the developer JavaScript console after you load the page and paste any errors you find in a pastebin for me?

Depending on the browser, you can usually get to the Console by right clicking on the page > clicking on “Inspect Element” (or something similar), and then clicking to the Console pane within the inspector window. Once you’re there, you’ll likely see a few red error messages – those are what I will need to see.

The style issue is with the plugin – that was a contribution from someone who submitted some changes. I’m about to remove it and will push an update to the plugin that you should see within a few hours.

@jessdoodled – the style issue fix has been added. You should see an update for the plugin shortly.

@rrackow – I am still investigating your issue. I know where the problem is occurring, just not sure why yet, or how to fix it. Stay tuned.

Hey @rrackow – I’d like to have you edit a line in the plugin to see if it fixes the problem for you, if it does – I’ll make it a permanent change in the plugin. But I’m not sure that it will work.

With the plugin editor in WP, edit line 39 of /php/slickquiz-front.php

FROM:


preg_match( '/\[slickquiz[^\]]*\]/is', $content, $matches );


TO:


preg_match( '/\[\s*slickquiz[^\]]*\]/is', $content, $matches );


Let me know if you see a change, also make sure you add the following to the top of your theme’s functions.php file (after the <?php bit) :


add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode' );