douglerner

Matty. Yes, it does look resolved there. As I mentioned, I keep trying to set it back to unresolved but it doesn’t stick. ??

There are some plugins which just don’t seem to play well together. I think the main issue is that Subscriber doesn’t use the actual content of the post (what you see when you edit and look at the HTML) but rather what WP evaluations as the result and turns into the HTML you see when you view the post.

doug

I am using WP 3.4.

doug

They are all different. I may mention one issue when discussing a separate issue, but the main questions are different.

Is this accomplishing anything other than preventing me from getting help with this issue?

doug

It’s called Auto-hyperlink URLs.

doug

Krishna,

I’m afraid you are misinterpreting the post. (1) The issue was not resolved there and; (2) this post is a different question.

This post is specifically about how to view shortcodes in posts. It is not a duplicate post.

Thanks,

doug

This keeps getting marked resolved even though it isn’t. ??

Anyway, I see how the code apparently works. It doesn’t matter what the actual HTML content is stored in the post itself. Apparently it takes the rendered HTML that wp displays and uses that. That’s what messes it up.

doug

I guess I can just use Jetpack on my self-hosted blog.

I just tried it and even though Jetpack is written by wordpress.com and even though it uses wordpress.com subscription management and email, unlike the notifications from wordpress.com it sends out a valid link. And unlike the subscriptions from Subscribe2 it doesn’t send out just a black square. It sends out the URL.

I don’t know why Jetpack would work correctly while the email notifications from my wordpress.com blog don’t. And I don’t know why Subscribe2 sends out all that code I posted above. But I’ve spent waaaaay too much time worrying about this.

The email subscriptions from wordpress.com itself sends out a still image with an invalid link, so I would like to do this self-hosted

The only things I don’t like about Jetpack’s notifications are (1) Like with wordpress.com you have no control over the subscribers (e.g. you can’t help somebody unsubscribe) and (2) you can’t customize the confirmation messages, which include “howdy” and other expressions I don’t like. That’s why I wanted to use Subscribe2 if possible.

But since the email notifications from wordpress.com have that bug, and the Jetpack notifications don’t, and Subscribe2 sends out a black rectangle, Jetpack might be my only choice.

doug

It turns out this is not resolved.

I turned off the auto-embed that was going on, so the content of a post internally is just something like:

But I had to turn on support of shortcode recognition or the old posts wouldn’t show up correctly.

This results in:

1. Posts like https://douglerner.net/?p=2401 showing up ok in the web but,

2. When Subscribe2 sends out the notification instead of just sending out the URL itself (which is all that is there internally in the post) Subscribe2 sends out a message with a big black rectangle where the URL is!

Looking at the source of the HTML mail, it looks like Subscribe2 is taking the internal YouTube URL above and sending it as:

<span class=’embed-youtube’ style=’text-align:center; display: block;’><iframe class=’youtube-player’ type=’text/html’ width=’584′ height=’359′ src=’https://www.youtube.com/embed/FGANwLBiF-k?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent&#8217; frameborder=’0′></iframe></span>

Why would it do that? That’s the cause of the problem.

The HTML source of the actual post doesn’t have all that stuff in it.

Thanks,

doug

I have it working in wp 3.4 on my self-hosted site.

doug

I see if I turn off the theme css and just do it all with inline styles that works.

I’m definitely not a CSS designer, but I think this one I came up with looks decent enough.

Thanks,

doug

Matty, what’s the difference between using that template and checking the use theme CSS box?

Thanks,

doug

Matty,

When “use CSS from theme” is selected it appears to be doing something like that. The problem is none of the themes look nice as email notifications. They weren’t designed for that. You either end up with the really poor looking email notification you get for twenty eleven, or a nightmarish illegible mishmosh, depending on the theme. The blog themes just weren’t designed for email notifications.

Compare with, say, the one-size-fits-all email notifications from Jetpack, which looks like the standard wordpress.com notifications (which ignore the current theme). At least those email notifications look very nice.

You would admit the idea of just “use the CSS from the current theme” results in bad looking notifications, right?

I’m just wondering if there are any samples of nice looking notification CSS that we can add to our current theme and then surround the email templates with appropriate divs so they make use of the added CSS. Even if it doesn’t match the theme.

Thanks,

doug

Arie,

The contents of the .htaccess file just had comments in it:

# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

In the meantime I guess I’m stuck with query URLs.

Unless somebody has any additional thoughts?

Thanks,

doug

I upgraded to 3.4 this morning hoping it might fix the problem. I’ll try the other things you recommended when I get back from the store.

Thanks!

doug

Remember though, the author link or name isn’t even shown in twenty eleven. That’s why I changed themes for testing.

doug