JJ

Well, I fixed it. I tested the shortcode in a page and it showed up just fine. For some reason it just stopped working in widgets. Then I found this article:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/wordpress-shortcodes-complete-guide/

It had this blurb in it:

A shortcode in a widget before enabling the functionality
With WordPress, we can enable this functionality with a single line of code. To be able to add shortcodes in widgets, add the following:

add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);

I added that to the functions.php in my child theme and everything worked just fine again. No idea why that would have stopped working, but hopefully this helps someone else out if they run into the same issue.

Thanks for your help!

— Jim

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by JJ.

Haha, I never even knew the widget was there – I’ve been doing a text widget with the shortcode in it for a while now. ??

I just tried the Waiting widget and it shows up blank on the page. I also tried switching the theme and that didn’t make a difference.

I left the widget on the page since it showing up blank doesn’t hurt anything.

If I do an Inspect Element, it looks like the widget is there, but it’s blank in between the span tags.

Any thoughts?

So funny enough, it now says “Connected” for the status within the plugin. It sounds like maybe there was a temporary ban on the IP where my server resides that might have been lifted.

So I think we’re good-to-go on this. Thank you guys for your help!

— Jim

Thanks, Danny – it appears I’m failing the mission. MailChimp won’t give me support because I have the free plan with them and my webhost just keeps telling me that they need to know the IP that it’s connecting on so they can do whatever on there end.

So that sucks. Hopefully you hear something useful back from MailChimp. In the meantime, I might need to switch to a different (not as good!) plugin just to get things operational temporarily.

Let me know what you find out or if you have any other thoughts. Appreciate your help!

Thanks,

— Jim

I hate to be the “bump” guy, but here goes… bump. ??

Thanks,

— Jim

Hi guys – I’m stuck on this same problem… did you ever find a solution to get them evened out?

— Jim

Just a follow-up on this for anyone who needs it. The support team at ThemeGrill helped me out with this on their site. Here is the code that needed to be added to my style.css page of my child theme:

.blog .post-featured-image, .archive .post-featured-image {
    float: left;
    margin-right: 20px;
}

Worked perfectly.

— Jim

No longer pending! ??

Thanks again.

— Jim

Wow, you’re good! I had added the following to my function.php file:

// Defer Javascripts
// Defer jQuery Parsing using the HTML5 defer property
if (!(is_admin() )) {
    function defer_parsing_of_js ( $url ) {
        if ( FALSE === strpos( $url, '.js' ) ) return $url;
        if ( strpos( $url, 'jquery.js' ) ) return $url;
        // return "$url' defer ";
        return "$url' defer onload='";
    }
    add_filter( 'clean_url', 'defer_parsing_of_js', 11, 1 );
}

This obviously caused an issue. Removing it fixed everything.

Thank you very much!!!

— Jim

Thanks, Alex – my site is https://www.routetoretire.com/

— Jim

One more follow-up on this. I had the problem happen again when I posted a new blog entry. I think the actual problem may be W3TC’s Cloudflare integration:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/rss-feeds-are-botched-in-wordpress-43

I have followed this and emptied the cache from the Cloudflare admin panel (not from within W3TC) and things are good again. I have also disabled RSS caching in W3TC for the time being.

— Jim

So I think the problem has now been resolved. Please take a look at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/rss-feed-not-showing-new-posts-1 on how I fixed it.

— Jim

So I think that deleting those two files I mentioned (_index.html.old and _index.html_gzip.old) actually fixed the problem for whatever reason.

I checked the RSS feed last night and it looked good again. I posted a new article this morning and my feed shows the new content.

Not sure why these files caused a problem, but maybe it can help someone else in need.

Thanks Fist Full of Crisco!

— Jim

Thanks, Fist Full of Criso – there were two files in the page_enhanced folder:
_index.html.old
_index.html_gzip.old

I saved them off and deleted them, but it didn’t make any difference (guessing they weren’t in use).

It’s definitely a problem with the Page Cache. When I toggle Browser Cache on or off, it doesn’t make a difference. But when I toggle the Page Cache, I can see the problem happen on and off.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,

— Jim

As a follow-up to this, I did some testing and determined that the Page Cache in W3 Total Cache is causing the issue. When disabled, the RSS feed works correctly. When enabled, it doesn’t (even when leaving “Cache feeds: site, categories, tags, comments” unchecked).

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

— Jim