shortcode bug?

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  • 12/18/2018 at 7:24 pm #479763
    robert
    Guest

    I have what might be a messy configuration. I work at a science lab. We divide the scientist into 4 groups.
    The categories:
    Science (Higher level)
    astrophysics-exoplanets
    magnetospheric-physics-aeronomy
    planetary
    heliospheric

    On one page I use this shortcode:
    [connections template="circled" enable_map='FALSE' show_email='TRUE' enable_category_select='FALSE' category_name="planetary" enable_search='TRUE' enable_pagination='TRUE' pagination_position="after" excerpt_length=25 excerpt_more=" Read More…" image_width=150]

    And that works fine. And so does the same shortcode with heliospheric for category_name

    On the 2 other categories…I use this:
    [connections template="circled" enable_map='FALSE' show_email='TRUE' enable_category_select='FALSE' category_name="magnetospheric-physics-aeronomy" enable_search='TRUE' enable_pagination='TRUE' pagination_position="after" excerpt_length=25 excerpt_more=" Read More…" image_width=150]

    This does not work….

    12/18/2018 at 9:14 pm #479769
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ robert

    RE: This does not work

    Could you provide a little more detail on how it does not work? Something should be on the page with the shortcode.

    Are the category names really all lowercase with hyphens? They looks like category slugs. The name must match exactly, so if the category name is actually “Magnetospheric Physics Aeronomy”, that is what you should use.

    I actually recommend using the category shortcode option instead. You do not need to worry about spelling and capitalization and such while being a more performant database query since string matching is not needed.

    Hope this helps!

    12/19/2018 at 12:39 pm #479809
    robert
    Guest

    Duh….you’re right.

    I got lulled into thinking the slug would work because of the first 2, the name and the slug are the same :)…

    Thanks

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