Using Recencio shortcodes

  • Resolved gwe123

    (@gwe123)


    2 years, 2 months ago

    I am new to WordPress. 20 years ago I had a modest site written directly in HTML – then uploaded via ftp. Now I would like to learn to use modern, open source, tools. At this time, my work is entirely in the staging area. Not ready to publish (still exploring). The Recencio Book Review plugin is part of my plan. Said plugin was easy to install and activate. I created 3 reviews so far: two in one category and one in another. My problem is getting the book lists to display. Putting shortcodes, such as [rcno-book-lists] in page blocks (shortcode, custom html, paragraph) has not worked as expected. Either ignored or just shown as literal text. It seems that there is a step/notation that I am missing. It may be “obvious” to those who have done this for years. But hours of scanning examples and documents have not filled the gap. I can publish if this would help, though I would prefer to delay going public while in this early learning stage. Thanks for your assistance.

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  • Plugin Author Kemory Grubb

    (@w33zy)

    Hello,

    Normally your theme should handle the displaying of the reviews, the shortcodes are meant to be an auxiliary method of displaying a group of reviews. Also, they are primarily meant to be used inside pages, or book reviews (the [rcno-book-list] only works inside book reviews).

    With that said, you can try [rcno-reviews-index], [rcno-sortable-grid], or [rcno-reviews-grid taxonomy="genre" terms="Fantasy"]

    Thread Starter gwe123

    (@gwe123)

    Inside a shortcode block, [rcno-sortable-grad ] caused the message “There are no book reviews to display.” But “Reviews” in my WordPress side bar shows the 3 reviews I had entered. Note that I am working in a staging area – not ready to publish yet. Does the shortcode only apply to content that has been published? At present WordPress is much like a jigsaw puzzle for me – lots of little parts, but no clear plan for how the parts are to fit together.

    Plugin Author Kemory Grubb

    (@w33zy)

    You are correct, that shortcode will only work with published reviews.

    Thread Starter gwe123

    (@gwe123)

    Thanks for affirming my observation regarding shortcodes and staging.

    This is somewhat disappointing – as it would be better if ALL behavior remained the same for unpublished work, thereby making staging an entirely reliable predictor of coming published behavior. I will just have to expose more of my learning steps then desired …

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