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There are good reasons why shortcode nesting doesn’t work. But it does make the job harder when nesting. I managed with a little help from Google to use the below code, which will allow you to nest one column set.

This is how nested shortcodes are suggested to work. Notice the row-b and column-b

[row]
[column sm="6"]

start of col 1

[row-b]
[column-b sm="6"]

sub col 1

[/column-b]
[column-b sm="6"]

sub col 2

[/column-b]
[/row-b]

end of col 1

[/column]
[column sm="6"]

col 2

[/column]
[/row]

Functions to add to your functions.php. Essentially it extracts the shortcode and re-wraps it.

add_shortcode('column-b', 'col_cb');
add_shortcode('row-b', 'row_cb');

function col_cb( $atts, $content ) {
	$attr = array();
	foreach($atts as $key=>$att){
		$attr[] = ' ' . $key . '="' . $att . '"';
	}
	$content = do_shortcode('[column' . implode('', $attr) . ']' . $content . '[/column]');
	return $content;
}

function row_cb( $atts, $content ) {
	$attr = array();
	foreach($atts as $key=>$att){
		$attr[] = $key . '="' . $att . '"';
	}
	$content = do_shortcode('[row' . implode('', $attr) . ']' . $content . '[/row]');
	return $content;
}

You could nest deeper by just adding.

add_shortcode('column-c', 'col_cb');
add_shortcode('row-c', 'row_cb');
add_shortcode('column-d', 'col_cb');
add_shortcode('row-d', 'row_cb');

Orginal post (This helped me)
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/125328/how-to-parse-nested-shortcodes

Once again thanks to the plugin maker, this is a great plugin I use in all my sites.

Thanks got it working, but I changed it a little bit to use the wp-content folder.

file: classes/class-spider.php
line: 446 (approx)

change

file_put_contents('.head.htm',$head_HTML);

to

$upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();
$this->upload_dir = $upload_dir['basedir'] . '/easy-site-importer/';
if(!file_exists($this->upload_dir)){
	mkdir($this->upload_dir, 0777);
}
file_put_contents($this->upload_dir . 'head.htm',$head_HTML);

And then (about line 497)

$this->meta[$page]=array_merge(array('Title' => $title[1], 'Scrape' => $scrape, 'Filter' => $actual_HTML, 'Formatted' => $this->proc_HTML, 'Images' => $this->images_copy),get_meta_tags('.head.htm'));

to

$this->meta[$page]=array_merge(array('Title' => $title[1], 'Scrape' => $scrape, 'Filter' => $actual_HTML, 'Formatted' => $this->proc_HTML, 'Images' => $this->images_copy),get_meta_tags($this->upload_dir . 'head.htm'));