Gutenberg archive page — slider doesn’t appear (shows shortcode)

Hi @hblecher!

It it up to your theme, where it processes shortcodes and where it doesn’t. As you see here:
https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1945-shortcode-displays-instead-of-the-slider#theme-issue
you can call in the content of a page, without running its shortcodes. So I suggest getting in touch with your theme’s developers about this issue, as it has to be fixed within their code.

@nextendweb_gabor Thanks for your reply. In the event the theme developer can’t help, can you suggest a way for me to at least prevent the raw shortcode from showing in all archive pages (e.g. archive, category, search, etc.)? I’ll try to contact the theme developer, but I’m ultimately OK with the slider only appearing on the main page — I just don’t want the raw code showing up in the other contexts. Any suggestions for how to prevent that would be very appreciated. Thanks!

Please note, that we do not support custom coding. This can only be addressed within the theme’s codes, so you could try to create a child theme:
https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1796-wordpress-child-theme
and overwrite the part, where this content is being displayed. For example if you see this:
echo $content;
then you need to wrap the content’s variable around do_shortcode function:
https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/do_shortcode/
echo do_shortcode($content);
if you would like to run the shortcodes. If you want to remove them, you need to use strip_shortcodes:
https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/strip_shortcodes/
similarly:
echo strip_shortcodes($content);

So for this, you will need developer knowledge to find the part, which creates your content.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Gabor.

@nextendweb_gabor Thanks Gabor. I got in touch with the theme developer and he had the following response. Can you confirm that Smart Slider is designed to work with Full Site Editing?

I’d ask the plugin developer if they’ve tested the plugin with Full Site Editing themes, like Twenty-Twenty Two and Tove. Tove isn’t a classic PHP theme but uses the Full Site Editing functionality added in WordPress 5.9, so it’s possible that the plugin developers haven’t updated the plugin to work with those features yet.

Thanks!

Hi @hblecher!

Yes, our code should work fine in Full Site Editing. We tested Twenty-Twenty Two, but now I have checked Tove too, and both were displaying our sliders where shortcodes were inserted. We are using the add_shortcode function:
https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/add_shortcode/
to register our shortcode in WordPress, and it can be found within this file, if that helps:
wp-content\plugins\smart-slider-3\Nextend\SmartSlider3\Platform\WordPress\Shortcode\Shortcode.php

If instead our slider you try to use a shortcode, that is for example just a default WordPress shortcode:
[audio src="https://www.w3schools.com/html/horse.ogg"]
does that work for you, or does this stay a shortcode as well?

@nextendweb_gabor Thanks for the reply Gabor!

Yes, I frequently use shortcodes on Tove (e.g. the audio shortcode), and it works just fine!

But for whatever reason, when I went to try to double check that other shortcodes work, the slider started to render on the archive pages! Not sure what could have changed, since I haven’t updated anything since the last post, but now it’s working! It’s a mystery. ??