mimicplay

Hey Nick,

Thanks for your quick response. We have one sidebar for our shop “shop sidebar” that I currently have the shortcode in for the working category filter [wpf-filters id=1]. Can you recommend a way, maybe with another plugin, that allows the creation of different sidebars for different category pages? I assume I’d need to create a bunch of different sidebars, one for each category page where I want to place a filter, and then put the shortcodes in those custom sidebars?

Thank you for your help on this.

If I understand you correctly, you are saying that I should not put the shortcode for your plugin the Post Editor window, even if I have it in the Text (not Visual) tab?

I do currently have the shortcode in the text tab of the Post Editor, although if I’m not supposed to put it there, where else would it go? See screenshot for my current “blog roll page” shortcode: https://imgur.com/a/KVgsG

When you are talking about “passing any parameter, then you need to pass it to the shortcode itself,” are you talking about modifying either the single.php or page.php files of the theme to include some sort of “shortcode passing logic?” I am not a PHP developer at all, so please be gentle with me in your explanations if it is PHP-related ??

Since I first posted my question, I notice another odd issue. When I copied+pasted your example shorcode (e,g. [blog content_words_limit=”15″]) into the post editor window, and then clicked Preview, it did something funny (screenshot): https://imgur.com/a/JZLs7

As you can see from that screenshot, now, even when I have show_content=true, it passes show_content=false when I preview post. And continues to do so with the new shortcode I pasted in. It actually seems to fill in all the shortcode parameters even though I have not.

Does any of this help in troubleshooting the issue? Everything is fine as long as I set show_content=false, but I would ideally like to show that snippet and Read More button in the future.

I know it’s 3 months later, but I finally sat down and got a test environment running for my site and tried upgrading to AO 2.x. Everything worked great!

No ominous errors, no broken stuff. Plus, now I feel a lot more secure doing plugin/theme/PHP changes on the test site vs on the live site.

Just wanted to update this thread in case anyone else is in the same boat.

Thanks for the tip on using the code snippets plugin!

I do need to create a test environment, as you mentioned, so that plugin/theme update day isn’t a grab bag. When I have some time this week I’ll try to setup a version of the site to run on my desktop as a testing grounds and then test the AO update there first.

Thanks MRA13, everything worked just fine after deleting the folder via FTP. Have a Happy New Year!

Before I delete the folder, is there anything I need to do within the database to make sure all the elements of the plugin are removed so as not to break the site? I read a discussion on another WordPress support forum thread that said simply deleting the folder through FTP wasn’t enough. Thanks for the fast reply!

Hey MBR and MRA, thank you both for getting back to me on this.

I took a look at the link you provided and, while this may work, I am not a PHP developer by any stretch of the imagination. If I were to try this, I’d have to get someone to write the code for me.

In the meantime, I did more internet digging and found out that WooCommerce works in much the same way as Shopify. Although WooCommerce is a big, bloated plugin, I installed it, set it up, and reached my end goal (getting the contact to update in ActiveCampaign after a purchase) without having to use Zapier. There is a free plugin that integrates WooCommerce and ActiveCampaign that passes transaction information. Plus a separate free plugin/code snippet that helps reduce the WooCommerce “bloat” with “dequeue_script.”