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Baden, thank you!! I didn’t know about that, but it makes total sense.

I ended up transferring my template content to the text editor and using <?php the_content(); ?> to fill it in. Turned out to be a major headache. Wish I would’ve waited for your reply! ??

Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

Example:

<h3 class="process-title"><?php echo do_shortcode( '[expand title="What kind of payment do you accept?"]At the moment it's our policy to only accept payment by check.[/expand]' ); ?></h3>

The apostrophe in “it’s” causes a syntax error.

I don’t know if I was clear before, but I edit my custom templates in the editor under Appearance, not within the page’s text editor.

I experimented by using the original shortcode, sans the function, inside the actual page’s text editor, and it worked just fine with apostrophes put in.

So, the do_shortcode function causes a syntax error when apostrophes are used.

Well, I figured it out. Any apostrophes used in the expanded text causes an error. Just removed them all and it went back to working.

Do you know of any way around this, Baden?

Hold on, let me find the line in question.

Okay, I set it up and this came back:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘t’ (T_STRING) in **my theme page** on line 86.

Any ideas?

Baden, I’m editing the files directly in the WordPress editor. Is this wrong? :/

Hi sam elh,

Unfortunately that didn’t work ??

There are really no obvious solutions to this? I’m baffled.

sffandom, thank you for the reply. I’m not sure what a lot of this means but I appreciate the help. I’ll delete the Hotfix plug-in and see if that makes a difference.

Hi contentiskey, thank you for the response.

I haven’t tried any speed test tools, maybe that’ll be my next move. My website is still just an empty theme, so there isn’t anything to see. I’ve disabled the coming soon page plug-in to no avail. The slowness started before I installed this current theme, so I don’t think that’s the issue.