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Scratch that. I had messed with my index.php, and that messed it up. Normal text DOES work. Shortcodes still DO NOT.

Huh, ok so it turns out it is not just shortcodes. I figured I would start another part of the site that doesn’t need shortcodes, and the page just flat out does not show ANY text, shortcode or not.

Ya I am using it.

Like on the page?

I really don’t have a problem with waiting, and I understand that everyone here is a volunteer, but people just keep falling off this thread. I finally get someone who chimes in, then they’re gone, and I’m left waiting.

Probably going to be hard for anyone here to debug a custom theme.

What else do you need? Lapan said there was probably another function blocking it or something, so I posted my functions.php. Could you at least look at that and see if it is in fact a problem with my function.php?

Bump. omg. Is everyone just that busy or am I just being ignored? If someone could just have a somewhat constant convo with me, this would be fixed by now.

That guide says that the functions.php should be automatically loaded if it is present. What do I need to do to “activate” it?

So does anyone want to help out? Or…?

Hello?

I replaced the entire functions.php of the twentythirteen theme, and it works properly. I did the same with my custom theme, and it does not work:

<?php function test( $atts, $content = null ) {
return '<p>TEST TEXT</p>';
}

add_shortcode('test', 'test'); ?>

This is my entire functions.php. What is causing the problem, then? This is the first theme I have ever made myself, so I really have no idea what is going wrong.

<!--sidebar -->

<?php

/*if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )

// Sidebar Widget

register_sidebar(array('name'=>'right-Sidebar',

'before_widget' => '<li>',

'after_widget' => '</li>',

'before_title' => '<h3>',

'after_title' => '</h3>',

));*/

function test( $atts, $content = null ) {
return '<p>TEST TEXT</p>';
}

add_shortcode('test', 'test');
?>

It works on the default theme.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Still nothing

It’s a custom theme. There is nothing to do with shortcodes up to this point.

Why change the theme? Everything else works, its just the shortcodes?