Reply To: [connections] Short Code Not Working

11/29/2017 at 4:37 pm #442413
Steven Zahm
Keymaster

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RE: If we are running a local copy of wordpress on our server affect how shortcodes work?

Not exactly sure what you’re asking … shortcodes do not operate differently local vs server. (Local is still a server since you have a LAMP/MAMP/WAMP stack installed in order to run WP).

RE: When I preview the page

Define “preview” have you actually saved the page first, ie. a draft or published it?

If you have other plugins installed, I recommend doing the following:

The few times I’ve run across this in the past, the issue was always either Connections was not actually installed or it was installed and not activated. You’ve confirmed it was installed, can you please confirm that is activated?