Shortcode is not working when inserted on page

Having the same issue. Query Wrangler shortcodes working fine before, content recently disappeared “on its own.” Site is running PHP 5.6. When I am working in the Query Wrangler interface I can see the content on preview but I can no longer see it on the live site.

Interesting. I’m not sure what the issue could be, but since there are two of you with the problem we might can narrow it down.

Please go through the following list and provide the results here:

1. Do you have any query wrangler templates in your theme associated with the missing query?
2. On the page with the missing query, look at the source for any query wrangler html on the page. Anything at all that indicates the query is actually being executed.
3. Make a new query with the default settings, and test its shortcode on a new page?
4. If the new query with default settings works, please list here the settings you are using on the original query that stopped working.
5. List other plugins you have installed. I’m not certain, but perhaps you share a similar plugin that is involved in the problem. I’m especially interested in caching related plugins, or plugins that otherwise affect the content on a page. For that matter, if your host does some caching on their own, please include that info.

Hopefully this will get us close to an answer.

Thanks for the reports,
Jonathan

Jonathan,
Thanks for your response, and a great plugin!

1. not using any Query Wrangler templates in the theme.

2. Looking at the source code, I can see the textwidget where Query Wrangler is supposed to be executing, and its not coming up there.

3. I created generic Query Wrangler queries, they do not show up anywhere on the site in widgets pages etc. The shortcode also does not appear.

4. Can’t get any query to work. But they work inside the Query Wrangler preview.

5. I installed the plugin called “list plugins” and it spit this out

Advanced Menu Widget (0.3)
Busted! (1.4)
Contact Form by BestWebSoft (3.97)
Custom Content Shortcode (3.2.9)
Genesis Simple Edits (2.1.4)
Huge IT Slider (3.0.6)
Jetpack by WordPress.com (3.8.2)
List Plugins (1.4.3)
Meta Slider (3.3.6)
Nav Menu Images (3.2)
Query Wrangler (1.5.38)
Regenerate Thumbnails (2.2.6)
Responsive Lightbox (1.6.6)
Scroll To Top (2.1)
ShareThis (7.1)
Simple No Comment (1.0)
Under Construction (1.16)
W3 Total Cache (0.9.4.1)
Widget Context (1.0.3)
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Hi Noah,

There is definitely a conflict with Custom Content Shortcodes. I’ll provide a compatibility option in query-wrangler’s next release, and contact the creator of that plugin.

In the meantime if you’re feeling brave, you can edit query wrangler to use a different shortcode.

First, edit query-wrangler/includes/shortcodes.php ~ line 38. Change add_shortcode( 'query', 'qw_single_query_shortcode' ); to say add_shortcode( 'qw_query', 'qw_single_query_shortcode' );

Second, go to the page where you have embedded the the query wrangler shortcode and change it to [qw_query slug="..."]

I’ll try to release an update this weekend.

Thanks,
Jonathan

Thanks Jonathan–that worked. It was indeed a conflict with Custom Content Shortcodes. Good to know that for the future. I disabled it and the content of QW came back up. Thanks!

I have another site in which Query Wrangler is also not working. But the Plugins are a little different. Do you know about any conflicts with these?

Thanks so much for your help!

Advanced Custom Fields (4.4.5)
Advanced Custom Fields: Date and Time Picker (2.0.18.1)
Advanced Menu Widget (0.3)
AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget (0.9.9)
Category Posts in Custom Menu (1.2.1)
Category Posts Widget (4.1.4)
Custom Post Widget (2.8.4)
Disable Comments (1.3.2)
Display Posts Shortcode (2.5.1)
Genesis Simple Menus (0.3.0.1)
Hello Dolly (1.6)
Intuitive Custom Post Order (3.0.7)
Jetpack by WordPress.com (3.8.2)
Lazy Load (0.6)
List Plugins (1.4.3)
PB Responsive Images (1.4.2)
Post Content Shortcodes (0.5.6)
Query Wrangler (1.5.38)
Regenerate Thumbnails (2.2.6)
Related Posts Slider (2.1.1)
Responsive Lightbox (1.6.6)
Scroll To Top (2.1)
Simple Image Sizes (3.0.9)
Under Construction WP (1.0.2)
W3 Total Cache (0.9.4.1)
WP-Optimize (1.8.9.10)
WP-ShowHide (1.04)
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (4.3.1)
Nav Menu Images (3.2)
NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati (2.1.23)
NextGEN Gallery Optimizer (2.1.2)
Post Content Shortcodes (0.5.6)
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (4.3.1)

As a preface, I want to say how great this plugin is, Jonathan! I’m both a Drupal and WP developer and it was great to see you develop this “Views” functionality in WP. Keep up the great work!

I have “Custom Content Shortcode” installed too, so that may be the same issue that NoahFischer is experiencing too. However, because he is also experiencing this on his other site, I’ll still answer Jonathan’s original 5 questions:

1. Do you have any query wrangler templates in your theme associated with the missing query?

No

2. On the page with the missing query, look at the source for any query wrangler html on the page. Anything at all that indicates the query is actually being executed.

No, there’s not even an empty div. However it shows up in the preview in the Query Wrangler admin page for this query.

3. Make a new query with the default settings, and test its shortcode on a new page?

Doesn’t work either.

4. If the new query with default settings works, please list here the settings you are using on the original query that stopped working.

N/A

5. List other plugins you have installed. I’m not certain, but perhaps you share a similar plugin that is involved in the problem. I’m especially interested in caching related plugins, or plugins that otherwise affect the content on a page. For that matter, if your host does some caching on their own, please include that info.

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Thanks emarkhauser,

I suspect it’s the same issue as Noah.

I’ve pushed an update that includes a new setting in query wrangler. If you enable “Shortcode compatibility” in the QW Settings, it will use the qw_query shortcode instead of query.

Then edit your shortcodes to [qw_query slug="..."].

Let me know if you run into any problems, and thanks again for the report,
Jonathan

Works perfectly! Thanks so much Jonathan for your quick turn around time on this!

Cheers,
Erik