ianmspencer

Thank you for the detailed reply.

I am confident that the issue is that the WP User Front End form is using the old block editor and there is an incompatibility with this and the block themes. Hence I can use the “classic block” in the Admin view of the post but using the front end (with administrator authority) is forcing some pre-processing on links causing the link quotes to be quoted, breaking the code.

There is apparently no option on the form to switch off pre-processing.

This also affects the More except tag which gets processed into text.

As I mentioned, I attempted to switch off pre-processing using the run_wptexturize filter using the WP_Code method of injecting the code into the site, but this did not work even though WP_Code suggested the code was active on the page.

I suspect the solution is that the form needs to use the classic block when in a Gutenberg theme.

On the events_list shortcode I think I found a bug where

[events_list limit=3 grid="view"]

didn’t work but

[events_list grid=”view" limit=3]

did.

So it might be worth trying a couple of tests on shortcodes under 6.4 to see if you can solve the problem with a different parameter order.

OK, had a nose around and found the flag in the meta settings for the page. I’m not convinced the way you create the data should effect how you display the data, it surely should be a site wide flag to decide whether the system is using block templates or classic templates. As a novice, it has certainly confused me as to what templates I need to be fiddling with to get the data displayed how I’d like it with the theme.