How do I post shortcode as code?

• 

  xiaoyingtai · Member · May 30, 2014 at 8:29 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  I just tried to write a blog post about the wonderful display-posts shortcode. But ironically, I found myself unable to display the code! It kept evaluating instead, even when I used the [code]...[/code] markup as recommended by http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/.

  I’m assuming this is because I am failing to specify language=”xxx” correctly. But I don’t know what language it is. Help?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  timethief · Member · May 30, 2014 at 8:33 pm

  • Copy link

  Exactly, which display shortcode did you use please?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/

  Post it here between code tags.

• 

  timethief · Member · May 30, 2014 at 8:35 pm

  • Copy link

  I see this one on the blog
  (note the space following the d)

  [d isplay-posts tag=”favourites” orderby=”rand” posts_per_page=”4″ wrapper=”div” image_size=”thumbnail” ]

• 

  xiaoyingtai · Member · May 30, 2014 at 8:36 pm

  • Copy link

  That’s the one.

  [display-posts tag="favourites" orderby="rand" posts_per_page="4" wrapper="div" image_size="thumbnail" ]

• 

  xiaoyingtai · Member · May 30, 2014 at 8:37 pm

  • Copy link

  I had to include the space following the “d” because it wouldn’t display otherwise. I assume that’s because it was trying to evaluate instead.

• 

  timethief · Member · May 30, 2014 at 8:37 pm

  • Copy link

  The code I posted above is a direct copy paste from your post and it has an issue because there is a space following the initial “d”

• 

  xiaoyingtai · Member · May 30, 2014 at 8:42 pm

  • Copy link

  You’re misunderstanding my question. And are you sure you want to respond to this thread? Last time we talked you were alarmed once you realised who I was. The WP.com staff made it clear that I’m not in violation of the terms of service, but I think you didn’t want to be associated with BDSM bloggers in any way.

• 

  xiaoyingtai · Member · May 30, 2014 at 8:52 pm

  • Copy link

  Apologies, instead of stating that there was a misunderstanding, I should have clarified. Here is the clarification.

  I want people to see the shortcode so they can use it. This is what I want to display:

  [display-posts tag="favourites" orderby="rand" posts_per_page="4" wrapper="div" image_size="thumbnail" ]

  But instead I kept getting an empty line. I assume this is because the post is trying to evaluate the shortcode, even though I am using [code] tags. I don't understand why the [code] tags work here in the forum but not on my site.

  My temporary solution was to insert a space that invalidates the shortcode, which timethief thinks is a typo. It's not, and I told my readers to take it out when they actually try to use the code themselves. But obviously this is not an elegant solution.