Other way to publish a table than by short code?

Hi Stefan,

thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

The question here is how your theme prints that category description. Most likely, there’s a line like

echo category_description( $id );

in the file in your theme that is used for categories. You would then just have to change that to

echo do_shortcode( category_description( $id ) );

to have Shortcodes evaluated.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi Tobias,

thank you so much for your fast and kind answer!
Unfortunately your solution doesn’t really work in my case. Probably my fault, perhaps I should have had described the situation better.

Here’s what I am trying to achieve: I want to have a text on the category page in which a table is embedded.
The theme didn’t allow me to do html in the category description in the first place, so I took the “HTML in Category Description” plugin, which makes it possible to insert a complete text page – except the table.

Now, if I replace the category_description by do_shortcode I lose the ability to insert html text and also the table in the text doesn’t appear. But if I just add your do_shortcode line to the existing code, nothing happens. Maybe another solution?

Thanks again, Tobias, and in advance merry x-mas days!
Stefan

Hi Stefan,

sorry, I don’t really understand. The do_shortcode plugin should not change that existing HTML code at all.

Maybe you should then look for a plugin that not only allows HTML in the category description, but also Shortcodes? This is not specific to the TablePress Shortcodes, so a global solution like that should be much better…

Regards,
Tobias

Ok, I’ll look for one as you recommended. Thanks anyway!

Hi,

no problem, you are very welcome! Sorry that I couldn’t help better.
If you find that there’s something I can do in TablePress, just let me know!

Regards,
Tobias

Great support, Tobias! ??

For those with the same question: “Rich Tax Description Editor” solved the problem and seems to work neatlessly with TablePress.

Best,
Stefan

Hi,

very nice! Thanks for letting us know! Great to hear that there’s a plugin that fixes this ??

Best wishes,
Tobias

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