Having Issues

If the shortcode is breaking on your page it is most likely that < in your start parameter. WordPress will try to reformat your page content by inserting Line Breaks where it detects open/close tags like that div. Since you are not supposed to put Line Breaks in shortcode parameters this results in a broken shortcode. try using an encoded < character:
& l t ;
(without the spaces).

Also, try wrapping the whole shortcode in a textarea tag so you can see the HTML that you are getting back.

Let me know if you need more help.

Aloha, Eli

Hi Eli,

Thanks for your help. Still not having any luck getting it to embed. I tried the encoded characters.. no luck. My page is coming up blank where the short code is. Here is the output of the textarea code:

https://pastebin.com/yQFft6rE

And this is my shortcode:

[remote_get url=”https://yourmortgagesource.org/best-rates/&#8221; start='<h2 class=”title-heading-left”>As ‘ stop='<footer class=”footer-area”>’]

It works for me but try leaving off the > character to for simplicity, it not needed for this call to work. So the start parameter ends with ‘…-left”‘ and the stop parameter ends with ‘…-area”‘.

Your text area seems to contain the right code put there are a lot of </p> that should not be there. it may not display right on your page because of the wrong number of closing tags for the given content and you may also need to adjust your css to match the display styles of the original page.

Try the page inspector in your browser to see if you tell how many extra closing div tags you have at the end, then you can then you can open that many div tags before your shortcode.

Aloha, Eli

Eli,

When I remove > it does display.. but I get an error in the editor:

11-20 05:46: SHORTCURL start=<h2 class=”title-heading-left” As but not found in (https://yourmortgagesource.org/best-rates/)!

The shortcode does embed the website even with the error, and the stop command seems to work.. it doesnt display the footer. But the start position does not. It embeds the entire header.

Could you show me the exact shortcode settings you’re using to get it to display properly?

It work for my with start='<h2 class=”title-heading-left”‘ or start='<h2 class=”title-heading-left”‘

My whole shortcode is:
[remote_get url=”https://yourmortgagesource.org/best-rates/&#8221; start='<div id=”post-10275″‘ stop='<footer class=”footer-area”‘]

note: the < symbol you see on this forum is really & l t ;

Eli,

Thank you so much! That worked perfectly. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out. Keep up the great work.