Cannot insert table… only shortcode appears on page

Sorry I forgot to mention. Using latest version of Tablepress and WordPress. No errors thrown up. Just the short code appears on pages. No tables.

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

Most likely, this is an issue in your theme.
For example, it could be possible that the theme registers its own table Shortcode, or that it does not execute Shortcodes for some reason.

Can you therefore please switch to the WordPress default theme Twenty Thirteen temporarily, to check if the Shortcode works there?

Regards,
Tobias

Hello Tobias and thankyou so much for your quick attention ??

I tried your suggestion and switched to Twenty Thirteen and then added a new shortcode. Sorry to say that it ttill does the same thing. I also tried creating a new table whilst Twenty Thirteen was temporarily activated. Still the same. I all I get on the page are “[table id=3 /]”.

Yes, Genesis has it’s own shortcodes but no table shortcode that I know of. The regular shortcodes work.

Thankyou again,
Paul.

Oh an sorry for my bad typing! ??

Hi,

ok, if it’s not working with Twenty Thirteen either, that means that some other plugin is interfering.

If possible, I’d like to take a direct look at this on your site. Could you therefore please create a temporary admin account for me and send me the details via email (the address is in the main plugin file “tablepress.php”). Thanks!

Regards,
Tobias

Hi Tobias!

Thanks again my friend for your great help. Yes I was just about to send you my admin details when I had a thought. I disabled all plugins and then reinstated them one by one. I found the problem!

The problem plugin is Instabuilder. Not sure what the issue/s are with it but when I disabled it, the table displayed fine. When I re-enabled it, back to just displaying the table ID number.

Not sure what can be done about it – Instabuilder is pretty popular and I am unsure what the nature of the problems are but Tablepress and Instabuilder definitely do not work for me together. I wish they would both work co-operatively though ??

Thanks again and best regards
Paul.

Hi Paul,

that’s a great find! I was actually about to suggest to disable other plugins one by one, so good to see that you already did that!

My assumption then is that Instabuilder is somehow manipulating the Shortcode handling of WordPress. As that seems to be a commercial plugin, I can’t test with it or check the code, unfortunately. I can therefore only suggest that you contact their support and ask them why Shortcodes are not evaluated.

Regards,
Tobias

Thanks mate I appreciate it. You’re a great guy Tobias – I might contact you via email to see if you are able to do some custom styling for my theme for me?

Best regards
Paul.

Hi Paul,

no problem, you are very welcome!

Yes, you can contact me via email for this. I can however not promise that I’ll have time. That will depend on the amount of necessary changes for your styling.

Best wishes,
Tobias

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