5circles

Hi.
First, I’m relieved that development on this plugin is apparently continuing, and so is support. My first attempts to use it were unsuccessful, and then I paid more attention to dathe date of the latest update and the version of WordPress supported. But according to other threads (which for some reason I had a hard time finding initially), Shortcodes in Menus works with WP 4.9.5.

I’m using WP 4.9.6 which may be part of my issue. This thread clarified some things, but I’m still unable to get it to work as I think it should.

I may be wrong, but my understanding was that the way to use Shortcodes in Menus is to create the Shortcode in the Menu page and then add it to the menu. The WP Customizer adds confusion for me (I probably only started using it with WP 4.9.6), but right now it seems you can’t make all the changes in the Customizer so the Menu page is still needed – fine by me as it seems less cumbersome that way.

However, when I use the Shortcode elements in the menu they don’t work for me. I can create them and add to the menu. But the menu label isn’t visible except by hovering – which shows the shortcode – e.g. [mp_bloglink], and the clicking makes no difference. I’ve tried editing once the item has been added to the menu, but nothing makes any difference.

The workaround that I’m using was editing the ‘class-shortcode_in_menus.php’ file. I copied the code that generates ‘gs_test_shortcode’ and modified the new code to do what I wanted all along – which is to generate menu items that are different depending on which server they are running on (for development purposes). This is manageable with the few shortcodes I need on public and private servers, but I don’t think this is what you intended.

Perhaps the problem I’m having relates to changes from WP 4.9.5 to 4.9.6, or perhaps I’ve just missed something about how to use the plugin.

Thanks
Mike

Tried various recommended fixes including removing Yoast entries in wp_options table, clearing cache, and disabling pop-up blocker.

Finally, Chrome incognito worked. But now I’m stuck with Google Analytics Dashboard authentication. I’ll start a new thread.

I had this problem yesterday, with the second event I posted. After trying the things that Debra tried, I ended up recreating the event. It worked properly after that.

I just made this change – that’s great. But I couldn’t figure out how to edit the CSS within WordPress. That’s probably just my lack of WP experience.
Thanks
Mike

Yes, all this thread has nothing to do with WordPress. It is about your struggle to set up your own server, not WP – so it should not even be here!

With respect, I beg to differ slightly. Yes, it turned out that the problem was with the settings in MySql. But I followed the instructions in the WordPress install (or thought I did), and all that I could see was the error from WordPress.

Might review the Step 2: Create the Database and a User section of Installing WordPress.

I thought I did – went through it several times. I didn’t see anything that indicated I needed to change the host for a user. Maybe that’s part of the Ubuntu defaults.

Of course, as soon as I post I try something else that (sort of) works.

I tried changing the privileges for the wordpress user to Global – ALL. That didn’t work. Then I noticed that the host for the wordpress user was set to %. I thought that meant that I could access from anywhere, but apparently not. I changed the host to local, and then the install worked.

I wish I understood this more, but at least I’m making progress.