[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

[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

[avasmith]

I’d check this first outside the slides to see if the shortcode is still working normally. If it works on a regular page but not inside the slides, there’s probably an issue with the slider itself. Also worth checking if the slider, plugin, or theme was updated recently. Sometimes a small update or conflict can cause shortcodes to stop rendering.

[lazyleopard]

As I mentioned above, the short-codes work just fine elsewhere on the site. For example, on this page:

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

It is only in the slider that they no longer work. There’s even a “smoking gun” in the update notes for version 1.4.0 where it says this:

“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”

My point is that the change noted above has killed not only the small number of short-codes that might cause a recursion problem, but also all the other short-codes provided by other plug-ins that don’t cause a problem. The short-codes I have in my slides have been working just fine for years.

Website: www.orpington-astronomy.org.uk

[lazyleopard]

Sadly, the 1.4.1 update has not restored the function of shortcodes like the Events Manager ones I am using. The dates, times and links for activities still don’t appear in the slider text… 🙁

Website: www.orpington-astronomy.org.uk

[threegalsandaserver]

I’m seeing the same issue on a client site using the Roseta theme. We tested with both third-party plugin shortcodes (Pods Framework) and a generic shortcode, and neither rendered — confirming this isn’t plugin-specific. The recursion protection introduced in 1.4.0 has removed shortcode processing from slide content entirely.

The issue appeared with 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 has not resolved it. Rolling back to the previous version restores the expected behaviour.

lazyleopard’s suggestion is exactly right — the fix should block only the slider’s own shortcodes from being processed recursively, not remove do_shortcode() from slide content output entirely. A simple exclusion of the slider’s own shortcode tag would solve the recursion problem without breaking everyone else’s use case.

Is there a filter we can use in the meantime to restore shortcode processing in slide content?

[Zed]

Hi,

We’ve had to remove handling of shortcodes inside the slides content because in some instances it creates recursion loops (and out of memory errors) when the slider is called through the new block.

We weren’t aware shortcodes inside slides content were such a widely used feature. We’re looking into a better solution to protect against recursion and hopefully restore the shortcodes support.

As a temporarily workaround you can revert to the 1.3.2 version of the plugin.

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[lazyleopard]

Thanks. I have rolled back the slider on https://www.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/ and disabled auto-updates on it for now. Looking forward to seeing the updated version. 🙂

Website: www.orpington-astronomy.org.uk

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