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Thanks. I’ve posted all of this information on their support forums, so they are aware. I’m just hoping the problem is what I think it is, and that I can figure out a way to use the tooltips I wanted.

It looks like the problem is my child theme — which is baffling to me, because it was working before, and just stopped out of the blue when I updated the plugins. When I revert to the original Flexible theme, the dropdowns are working. My guess is that it’s something to do with the version of JQuery I registered in functions.php — which sucks because if I have to use an earlier version of JQuery, I can’t use the tooltip I wanted to. I’m going to fiddle around for a bit and post here with the results. I’d really like to be able to use the latest JQuery.

If anyone has any idea what CAUSED this, I’d really like to know.

Thanks for the reply. I just checked and it does work on 2011. Maybe updating the theme will work. I’ll let you know the result.

Thanks for your help. I recognize that it’s a bit of a broader question than applies strictly to this plugin, but I wasn’t sure if was my code or the plugin that was causing the problem.

You did point me in the right direction, although I couldn’t get nested loops to work in the shortcode no matter what I did. It’s annoying because I’m pretty sure I’ve got the code right. It’s not that complicated. Still, whenever I use a nested loop of any sort in the shortcode, it doesn’t display anything. I’m sure there’s a reason for this, and I’m still a newbie at PHP. I just wish I understood what was going wrong.

Anyway, what did end up working was setting up a condition with the post_excerpt method you suggested. It might even work better for the client this way, because now instead of inserting the more tag, she can just copy the section she wants to appear to the excerpt field. Thanks for taking the time to look at my question, and for developing a great plugin that I will use a lot.

Polite bump on this one. I really want to figure out a solution and could use some help on it. Thanks in advance.

Thank for the quick reply. Yes, I have done that and it made no difference. The problem, however, isn’t just that the read more link won’t appear. When I use the loop, the entire content area doesn’t appear. There isn’t even any html there when I inspect with chrome or firebug.

For purposes of demonstration, I’ve set up a new page: https://ccrumb.org/demo/

The column on the left contains the shortcodes I’m currently using, with the “compromise” code. The column on the right contains another shortcode using the code that I’d like to use, with the loop.

The page in question: https://ccrumb.org/testimonials/

Recognizing that this is probably a theme-specific problem, it may happen in other themes that use prettyPhoto. I figured out the fix — so, just in case anyone else comes across the problem with this theme or another one, I’ll post it here. It happens because the theme automatically loads the prettyPhoto script for all links. So the solution is to override it with inline javascript and create a CSS rule that shows a hand pointer like a regular html link. Just use this in the html(text) tab instead of a normal image link:

<img class=”hand” onclick=”location.href=’YOURLINK'”src=”YOURIMAGE” />

Then create the following CSS rule:

img.hand {
cursor: pointer;
}

That should do it. A whole lot of fussing around to fix a feature that we have no use for, lol. Easier than digging around for the relevant javascript files and doing it that way, though.

I understand that it’s not ordinarily something that would be covered here — just thought I’d try in case anyone has seen a similar issue. As mentioned I don’t have access to the developers’ support forum because the previous designer didn’t give it to me even though I requested it. I also tried contacting the developers directly and got no reply. If no one can help I understand, but I figured it was worth a shot.

Okay, so it’s not the shortcodes either. Please, anyone got any ideas?