Shortcode not working on custom taxonomy archives

Hello,

Thank you for letting me know. I will look into this. I seems like it should work.

Can you try this shortcode on a page? You can make it a private page. I suspect that the query is being overriden.

Hi, thanks so much for investigating. I’ve tested it on a page (https://dinotoyblog.com/explore/) and a post (https://dinotoyblog.com/stegosaurus-boley-by-gosnell/) and it works on both.

I did get the dreaded error message “Updating failed. The response is not a valid JSON response.” when updating the page, but it updated nonetheless, and I think this is a separate issue.

• This reply was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by dinotoyblog.

Great! Thanks. That narrows the issue down. I get that error a lot in the block builder. I don’t know why it happens but I don’t think that it’s related to this plugin.

I have two quick questions before i proceed. How are you creating your custom archive pages? Are you using a page builder or the theme editor? What theme are you using?

Hi, I’m using the plugin Simple Taxonomy Refreshed for the custom taxonomies. I use neither page builder or theme editor so I presume this plugin is also responsible for generating the archive pages. I use a child of the theme ‘Basic’ by WP Puzzle.

Here’s the modified theme code I use in archive.php

 <?php if (is_tax( 'other-category' )) : ?>
 <h1><?php _e( 'Type:', 'basic' ); ?> <?php single_term_title(''); ?></h1>
 <?php elseif (is_tax( 'classification' )) : ?>
 <h1><?php _e( 'Classification:', 'basic' ); ?> <?php single_term_title(''); ?></h1>
 <?php elseif (is_category()) : ?>
 <h1><?php _e( 'Brand:', 'basic' ); ?> <?php single_cat_title(''); ?></h1>
 <?php if ( $not_paged ) echo '<div class="archive-desc">'. category_description() .'</div>'; ?>
 <?php elseif( is_tag() ) : ?>
 <h1><?php _e( 'All', 'basic' ); ?> <em><?php single_tag_title(); ?></em> Reviews</h1>
 <?php if ( $not_paged ) echo '<div class="archive-desc">'. tag_description() .'</div>'; ?>
 <?php elseif (is_day()) : ?>
 <h1><?php _e( 'Day archives:', 'basic' ); ?> <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></h1>
 <?php elseif (is_month()) : ?>
 <h1><?php _e( 'Monthly archives:', 'basic' ); ?> <?php the_time('F, Y'); ?></h1>
 <?php elseif (is_year()) : ?>
 <h1><?php _e( 'Year archives:', 'basic' ); ?> <?php the_time('Y'); ?></h1>
 <?php elseif (is_author()) : ?>
 <h1><?php _e( 'Author:', 'basic' ); ?> <?php the_author(); ?></h1>
 <div class="archive-desc"><?php the_author_meta('description'); ?></div>
 <h1>All reviews by this author</h1>
 <?php elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) : ?>
 <h1 class="arhivetitle"><?php _e( 'Archive', 'basic' ); ?></h1>
  <?php endif; ?>

Thank you!

Oh, and I also use the plugin ‘Visual Term Description Editor’ to “Replace the plain-text term (category, tag) description editor with a WYSIWYG visual editor.”

Where are you entering the shortcode? Are you entering the shortcode in the description field of the category? I notice that this plugin doesn’t seem to work in the description field of a custom taxonomy at all.

You’ve solved it! My archive.php code was missing the get_the_archive_description() for the different custom taxonomies.

I’ve added that and now the shortcode works. Thank you so much for helping get to the bottom of it, I really appreciate it.

Edit: yes, I’m adding the code into the description field. It works with the help of the Visual Term Description Editor plugin, which stops the code from being stripped.

• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by dinotoyblog.
• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by dinotoyblog.

Great! Thank you for letting me know!