Shortcode is not working

Hi Damien,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

Can you explain what you are seeing instead of the table?

And can you please post a link to the page with the Shortcode?

Regards,
Tobias

Hello,

I’ve changed [table id=1 /] for [tableaux id=1 /] using your extension.

[tableaux id=1 /] is displaying instead the table.

Here a link with the shortcode :
https://www.news-assurances.com/actualites/assurance-vie-taux-de-rendement-2012-pour-les-principaux-contrats-du-marche/016773883

Thanks

Regards
Damien

Sorry, we are switching DNS… The table should be displaying on this public version.
It’s not working on the new version. I’ll let know once DNS have changed.

Hi Damien,

ok, that’s weird then.

And both TablePress and the Extension are activated plugins?

Does this also happen with the WordPress default theme TwentyTwelve? Can you temporarily switch to that? (Because some theme can prevent Shortcodes from working.)

Regards,
Tobias

Hi Tobias,

TablePress and the Extension are activated.

Indeed, when I change for the default theme, the shortcode works.

Do you know, what thing can block the shortcode functionality.
I also use a shortcode with Google Doc Embedder plugin, this shortcode works

Regards

Hi,

Thanks for testing! That’s really strange then. I have no idea why this is not working then… That other plugin uses the same mechanism as TablePress.

If possible, I’d like to take a direct look at this in your WordPress admin area. Could you therefore please send me an email? The address is in the main plugin file “tablepress.php”.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi Tobias,

Finally found the problem.
My content was displayed with $post->post_content, that why the shortcode wasn’t recognized.

Thanks for your plugin

Best regards

Damien

Hi Damien,

ah, yes, that’s the reason for the problem then. WordPress only evaluates Shortcodes, if the theme uses the_content();. Good to hear that you found this!

Best wishes,
Tobias

Damien or Tobias,
Can you explain the post_content vs the the_content() ? We’ve been banging our head against the wall with a theme that won’t display in IE9, so we just purchased a new theme from the same creators, and upgraded from wp-reloaded tables to TablePress but now none of the tables will display in pages. I’ve created new test tables to verify it wasn’t an issue with the imported tables.

Hi Jen,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

The difference between those two is basically, whether Shortcodes (all Shortcodes, not just those from TablePress) are evaluated, and whether certain formatting functions are applied by WordPress.
If you were affected by this same problem, you would not see any tables in any browser. Is that the case for you? What are you seeing instead of the tables?

If you post a link to a page where the table is not shown, I’ll try to find out what’s wrong.

Regards,
Tobias

The browser issue was just with headers due to a theme style, but we have a new theme.
In IE and Firefox, the tables are absent, and there’s nothing where they should appear; it just continued with the next text without any gap.

Example page
https://hottopicsconference.com/sessions/breakout-sessions/
This should have a 17Rx4C table above “Thursday Track Descriptions”. It’s table ID 2 I think.

Hi,

thanks for the link! That helps a lot!

The reason for this problem is that your theme (or another plugin?) also registers it’s own [table] Shortcode.
Therefore, you’ll have to change the Shortcode that TablePress uses, with this TablePress Extension: https://tablepress.org/extensions/table-shortcode/
I recommend to change the Shortcode to [tp-table], for example.

Regards,
Tobias

Ah, okay. It was probably the Wp-reloaded table thing. I did deactivate, then delete that. I’ll do this!
Thanks so much

Hi,

no, WP-Table Reloaded does not cause this, as there’s a special precautionary measure in TablePress to prevent that from happening. It must be your theme or another plugin.
You could of course try to identify that theme/plugin, but the simpler way should be to simply change the Shortcode for TablePress, via that Extension.

Regards,
Tobias

I have the ext installed and up in editor but I must be an idiot. what variable should be changed?