[lazyleopard]

I look after a website for a local amateur astronomy club. For a long time we’ve used Event Manager shortcodes to put brief information about the next meetings, trips and observing evenings into the text in slides on the Bravada Landing Page.

I was told this morning that the information is no longer appearing. It turns out that shortcode handling was removed from the slider in version 1.4.0 because of an update noted thus:

“Added recursion protection in slide content output (mainly to protect against slider-within-slider in the block editor) – this removes shortcode support within the slide content”

It seems to me that removing all shortcode support from slides because a small number of your own shortcodes can cause a slider recursion problem is not exactly optimal.

Please can you find another more selective way to avoid the problem that does not destroy useful functionality.

Thanks.

Website: www.orpington-astronomy.org.uk

[ROBERHENRY]

Thanks for reporting this issue. When shortcodes suddenly stop working in sliders after an update, it’s often related to changes in the theme, plugin compatibility, or the way the slider processes shortcode content. It would also be helpful to know whether the same shortcode still works correctly outside the slider, as that can quickly narrow down whether the issue is with the shortcode itself or the slider. Hopefully a future update restores the previous behavior if this is a regression.

[lazyleopard]

The sudden stop correlates with exactly one change, the update of Cryout Serious Slider to version 1.4.0.

Reviewing that version’s change notes, you will there’s one about short-code changes that I quoted above.

The short-codes work just fine elsewhere on the site. For example, on this page:

https://www.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/activities/

The details in the bullet points on that page used to appear in the correcponding sliders, and those sliders still have the short-codes un-changed, but they no longer work.

Website: www.orpington-astronomy.org.uk

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