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Installer Text widget changes breaks shortcodes
Since the most recent update, the “Text” widget is no longer leaving other plugin’s shortcodes “as is”. For example, I use Gravity Forms and their premade CSS classes for doing column/grid forms (gf_left_half, gf_right_half, etc). This use to work great with SiteOrigin Builder as long as it was placed inside a “Text” widget and not inside a SiteOrigin Editor widget.
Now, the text widget (since the last update) renders the Gravity Form shortcode in the same way as the SiteOrigin Editor widget – ignoring/breaking the CSS Gravity Forms is trying to use.
Why was the Text widget given WYSIWYG-style tools when there’s a perfectly good widget offering that and more (SiteOrign Editor widget)? I’m hoping this is a bug and not an intentional feature?
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2Hi Dan,
> Why was the Text widget given WYSIWYG-style tools when there’s a perfectly good widget offering that and more (SiteOrign Editor widget)? I’m hoping this is a bug and not an intentional feature?
WordPress introduced a number of widget enhancements and new widgets in WordPress 4.8. Such as the Image Widget, Video Widget, and a (basic) TinyMCE enabled text widget. Regardless, it appears as though the Automatically add Paragraphs setting checkbox is no longer present (that’s unintentional). I’m going to log this as a bug. Unticking Automatically add Paragraphs will prevent the undesired shortcode processing you’re referring too so it might be a good idea to try switching to the SiteOrigin Editor widget and disable the Automatically add Paragraphs setting to see if that works for you.
Sorry about this!
Fantastic! That worked Alex, thank you so much.
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