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I couldn’t sleep until I found the link.. I still couldn’t find the dev post reply but I found his knowledgebase post about what the custom formatting does:

https://gndev.info/kb/custom-formatting/

I did it (unchecked custom formatting) on one of my sites tonight (the site that is basically built with shortcodes ultimate, there is not a single post or page that doesn’t use at least 10-50 shortcodes on it), and it didn’t seem to break anything if that helps ??

(I have broken things but it’s unrelated to the change I made, and more to do with the latest version changes)

I don’t think it’s a good idea to change ALL shortcodes with a prefix at once, cos the plugin wouldn’t know which is part of shortcodes ultimate and which is part of another plugin or theme, so it would be a dangerous button to press.. I wouldn’t press it lol..

How many shortcodes have you got? I have thousands so I would never change my prefix (but I started with compatibility mode so all of mine have the gn_ prefix across all of my sites)

If you haven’t gone too far in, then you could change to su_ prefix (the new standard) by going to shortcodes > settings and adding it to the prefix section.. because maybe it is conflicting with a setting in your theme (your theme might already have something for [button] for example)

But I think that would mean having to recreate all the shortcodes that you’ve already created site-wide, manually…
(you can do a search for ‘[‘ in posts and pages to find all your shortcodes.. that will still take days if you have hundreds of posts though.. a nightmare if you’ve been using this plugin for a while)

Other things that I’m thinking in your case..

* Maybe it’s something to do with the fact that your site is in maintenance mode.. switch it off and test..?

* Try putting [raw] tags around your button code (assuming it’s just the buttons that aren’t working).. so in your case it would be:

[raw][button url=”https://dev2.striata.com/about-striata/career-application/” style=”flat” background=”#fd8204″ size=”4″ wide=”yes” center=”yes” radius=”0″ icon=”icon: clipboard”]Apply for this position …[/button][/raw]

* Me, I would definitely be trying the unchecking of the Custom formatting.. (and if you are concerned about changes, do a site-clone/backup first)..

I only tried it myself because of a post I saw from the developer to someone else .. I can’t find it again cos it’s almost 3am (Australia) and I have to work tomorrow so I don’t have time to look for it, but the developer suggested it and explained that it just removed something to do with wautopop.
(I haven’t noticed anything breaking due to unchecking of custom formatting and I had the same concerns/fears as you)

It’s only in the latest version that you’ve had to add that prefix.

My guess is you upgraded to the latest version in the last few days (or someone else who has access to your website might of done all your updates for all of your plugins and probably didn’t check the changelog before updating)

The last update prior to that (last week or so) the su_ and compatibility mode was enabled by default (which stuffed up everyone else’s sites that didn’t have su_ as their shortcode prefix.. or compatibility mode enabled). The su_ prefix is relatively new, so if you installed this plugin in the past couple of months, you probably wouldn’t of noticed any problems until this latest update.

This new updated version is going to help all of us with the really old shortcodes as well as any new ones, as well as help anyone that needs to get rid of su_ and change it to something else (if a new plugin somewhere down the line uses su_ for some reason). Hopefully in future versions, you won’t have to remember to add it.. because hopefully it will stay in your database.. I’m not sure on that, until the next update… lol, but at least this time it’s a 2 second fix instead of a functions.php change which is what the older shortcode users had to do.

hehe, awesome ??

I hoped to get you in time ??

Hiya Kent,

Why do you need to manually fix everything?
I’ve upgraded 14 different sites with this plugin and have never had to do that..

What are you doing to “fix” it?
If you are removing the su_ from all of your shortcodes to fix it, the above suggestion (adding su_ to settings) will fix all your shortcodes in 2 seconds (except the ones that you have “manually” fixed)

See also: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/version-440-with-gn_-compatibility-mode (the link shows what I had to do for a custom gn_ but it also explains the differences, and then at the bottom, the fix from now on.. and in future.. )

I’m pretty clueless when it comes to CSS, but I managed to change around my text spacing and font sizing in their custom-css box.

Go to Shortcodes > Settings > Custom CSS
Then click on the links to each of the .css files to find the bit that you want to change. Copy that into the box below and make your modifications.

You still have to figure out exactly which area you want to change.
For that, I used “inspect element” (right-click on the area that I want to change when viewing with Chrome) and it sort of clued me in to where I need to change it, but you could probably do a best-guess without it.

If you are good at css, you won’t have a problem, if you are anything like me, it’s going to hurt the brain a little bit while you figure out what to change ??

Make sure you have su_ in Shortcodes > Settings > Shortcodes prefix

@rtenbush – you can download previous versions from here https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/developers/

One of my button shortcodes (that works) is:

[gn_button url="https://mydomain.com/health-blog/" style="soft" background="#42a22a" size="5" wide="yes" center="yes" icon="icon: apple"]Just Health Posts[/gn_button]

(note, I use gn_ compatibility mode, so just pretend gn_ isn’t there)

The space that you refer to in-between “yes” and “center”.. is in my code.. and that works fine.. and is supposed to be there..

Do you mean that something else is in that space? that shouldn’t be? (like &nbsp instead of a space?)

If so, go to Shortcodes > Settings and try unchecking “enabled” next to
Custom formatting (then recreate the shortcode)

(I don’t know exactly what it does/how it works, but it does something with the wautopop, which is something to do with the things that wordpress automatically changes in formatting like when wordpress automatically adds &nbsp)

+1 for this feature please

I haven’t tried it cos I suck at CSS, but you can use the Custom CSS box in Shortcodes > Settings > Custom CSS

re: Is there a way to downgrade to the previous version?
yes: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/developers/

I had the same thing happen to me when using a plugin called ‘paged post slider’ (a plugin that breaks long posts up into multiple “slides”).

The plugin author of that plugin thinks the problem is caused “because the shortcodes call some unique javascript on pages where they are included, and because the slides only call the content of a page and not the javascript, it breaks the functionality. “

I don’t know if that helps you troubleshoot, but if you have any other plugin installed that “breaks” your pages into multiple pages, you might be able to identify the plugin that is causing the incompatibility with yours.

I would first try compatibility mode – maybe your theme also uses the shortcode [tab] which could be causing the weird issue. (that would be my first guess, and the most likely since your theme is a review theme which generally has tabs built-in)

And if that doesn’t work, I would try and disable any “similar” plugin to see if it’s an incompatibility with a specific plugin first.

For me, there is no workaround because of the specific plugin that I was using, so I decided to keep Shortcodes Ultimate and dump “page post slider” – I can’t live without this plugin, it’s embedded deeply in every site that I ever create ??

But for you, there is still hope ??

I had that problem too, but I found out the problem (for me anyway)..
try looking in the “html” mode, see if you have a space that is written as ? directly next to the shortcode.

(for me) I had to remove the   in html mode and then everything functioned as normal.

(can’t see the   when you are in the normal visual editor, so you might not know it’s there)

@fringer

1.) yep, that’s all I did.. added
gn_
to shortcodes > settings
and everything went back to normal

2.) I have no idea what the author things but I think this is the long term permanent fix.. it’s definitely the best version so far (instead of messing with and remembering to add stuff to functions, etc)