cbattle

Have you tried putting it into a text widget in the sidebar? That worked for me…

Just sent you an email…thanks! ??

Ok I will try to do that. Thanks! ??

Sorry – my problem was a user error. ?? I didn’t see the “Caldera” option in the widget area. I was thinking there would be a widget with my shortcode name. I like how you did this (all shortcodes available via the one widget called “Caldera”), I just did not think to look for that name. You might want to consider renaming it to “Caldera Widgets” or “Caldera Shortcodes”, so it’s really obvious.

Thanks again for an awesome plugin. I am finding it really useful! ??

Corinne

Hi- Thanks for a great plugin! I’m having trouble making it work in the widget area though. When I place one of my custom shortcodes into a Text widget (or Enhanced Text Widget) I just see the shortcode, not the result of the shortcode. For example, if I create a shortcode called localweather and put this in the Text widget content: [localweather], I see [localweather] in the sidebar and not the result of the shortcode. It works when I put that in a page but not in a sidebar widget. What is the trick to get this to work in a widget? Thanks!

Corinne

P.S. I’m using this for an internal website that is behind a firewall so I can’t send you a link to the site – sorry.

I would love to know this as well. Perhaps you could use the browser inspector to detect the classes and add your own custom CSS to the basic style.css file (to override the original settings).

@meccub: no, I never figured out how to do it and since the project was over-budget I had to leave it as is. Sorry I don’t have a better answer for you. ??

Corinne

Ok, thanks. I gave up on the “push down” feature for now. Maybe I’ll try again in the future, with another plugin.

Are you still using this plugin? Have you figured out how to work around any of these problems? I just modified the page, as you mentioned above and now I can’t access the page. Wish I had read your post first!

I don’t like how there is no page title on the client page. (Does anyone else see one there?)

I also don’t see how you can remove files that have been uploaded to a client’s page. Anyone know how to do that?

Thanks,
Corinne

Well, I did post it in the Comments area of the theme’s page in Themeforest (the only place I see to get support) and got no reply, so I reposted again today. Perhaps I’ll try contacting the theme author directly.

Thanks for inquiring…

You can try adding the following to your style sheet. This seemed to work for me. (I am using the Responsive theme as well.)

.meteor-shim {visibility:visible !important;}

Also, I didn’t modify the template file; I just put the shortcode into the page, like this:
[meteor_slideshow]

Hope this helps! Good luck…

Corinne

Never mind. Read more of the documentation and saw that I have to edit the code I have it working now. Now, I’m trying to see if there is a way to make it push down the page content rather than overlay it. Anyone know how to do that?

Thanks for the suggestion but I tried it and it didn’t change anything. I have a feeling it’s due to the way that I’m retrieving the weekday, via a shortcode (Easy Timer plugin). I can’t imagine why this is a problem but I have a feeling it has some thing to do with that. I may need to pull in the code that does the weekday calculation rather than using the shortcode. Again, I have no idea why it would be this way but when I set the $weekdayspecials variable manually and then call get_cat_ID it works fine, like this:

$weekdayspecials = ‘Wednesday Specials’;
$category_id = get_cat_ID( $weekdayspecials ); // this works

It’s just when I use the shortcode that it doesnt’ work, eventhough when I print out the $weekdayspecials string it looks fine.

$weedayspecials = ‘[weekday]’;
$category_id = get_cat_ID( $weekdayspecials ); // this doesn’t work

I’m totally stumped.