Shortcodes and/or css refuses to work.

For some reason any plugin I install (looking for an accordian plugin) that utilizes shortcodes, does not work. Short codes are not working at all it seems.

An example of this is “[wptabs style=”wpui-dark” mode=”vertical”] [wptabtitle] Test[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent]test[/wptabcontent][wptabtitle] Testy[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent]testy[/wptabcontent][wptabtitle] testy3[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent]testy3[/wptabcontent] [/wptabs]”

Is suppose to output to verticle tabbed item, and yet it just outputs in a plain list?
All Tab / Accordian plugins I activate do the same thing.

So I said screw it and coded my own html / css verticle menu into a page, and once again there is no styling? (added css attributes to the default stylesheet) Just a plain list?

So my issue is either shortcodes are not working or for some reason I cannot get the functions of an accordian to work in css.

(my self programmed accordian is fine, have tested it on non-wordpress sites with no issue)

HELP!