WordPress 4.4 and ShortCode in Page

Hi,
Can you please Visit Plugins->Installed and check if this plugin is active. Most probably this plugin got deactivated somehow, that’s why you are seeing the shortcode.

Please do note that the shortcode plugin(this) and sitewide activity widget are two different plugin.

Can you please check and let me know.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi,
I give you more details.

1 – The plug in is still active. It was never deactivated. The short code in the page where it was working before to upgrade to wordpress 4.4 not is not showing the activity feed.

2 – The same shortcode from the plugin, inserted in a widget for the sidebar, instead is continuing to work properly as it always worked before to make the upgrade.

3 – What I have checked:
– using this [activity-stream] in the page, it works properly.
– using instead the options in the shortcode, like these:

[activity-stream?allow_posting=1]
[activity-stream allow_posting=1 title=0 per_page=6]

strangely the shortcode doesn’t work and the page shows just the shortcode string.

I have these details. I hope these can really help.

In my website I use this shortcode, in the page and in the widgets:
[activity-stream allow_posting=1 title=0 per_page=6]

What can i do?

Kind regards

G.Aloe

Wait….

I don’t know what’s going to happen now!!!

But strangely now it works in my test website, after some tempative editing and saving the page.

Now, I try to make the same thing in the official website.

I just saved making this test:

<div id="bp" class="widget">
test 1
</div>

[activity-stream?allow_posting=1]

test 2

[activity-stream]

The problem was experienced in both website just after the upgrade to wordpress 4.4

Ok … I made a new test…

If I use these together in the page:

[activity-stream allow_posting=1]

[activity-stream]

The shortcodes works for both.

If instead I use only this:

[activity-stream allow_posting=1]

Alone ..It doesn’t work.

What can I do?

Hi,
That is strange. I tested and both works fine for me on WordPress 4.4 and BuddyPress 2.4.2. I did not test on multisite though.

Is there any chance that you are using a page builder? That might cause this type of issue.

No, I am not using a page builder for my pages.

I have:

WordPress 4.4
woothemes Canvas Theme 5.9.10

Nothing more.

The page shows only the feed from the shortcode. The rest of the things are in widgets added in the 2 sidebars.

I can try to check if it works with the wordpress standard theme.

anyway it’s strange that if I use ONLY

[activity-stream allow_posting=1]

it doesn’t work

BUT

if I use

[activity-stream allow_posting=1]
and this
[activity-stream]

together in the same page, both works.

Ahh ok. Pleas give it a try with the default theme and let me know if that works or not?

I update you.

Also with the theme Twenty Fifteen the problem was visible.

Then I tried to edit again the shortcode string manually and tested again. I have seen that it worked.

So I checked better using the “Inspect” feature of Chrome and I have seen this in the string:

[activity-stream&nbp;allow_posting=1 title=0 per_page=6]

In practice the new WordPress 4.4 for some reason, is not able to parse the string and use it properly.

Instead the WordPress 4.3.x parsed and filtered the string Properly.

In practice the wrong string worked properly per months using the old wordpress.

the same mistake was also in the official site, probably inherited by the copy and paste of the string.

Now it works properly.

Of course the problem was not visible using the visualbox and textbox of the wordpress editor.

Thanks for the support. you made me realize what was the problem.

??

G.Aloe

Hi G.Aloe,
Thank you for posting the details.

I believe copying and pasting in the visual editor got those space entities.

It is a better practice to always paste using the text mode(to avoid such issue).

I am happy, It is working. Marking as resolved.

Thank you
Brajesh