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Shortcode not working in HTML section - Possible other solution?

  1. jleavitt
    Member

    So what I am trying to create is a 4 page test. Each section of the test is based on a video. So I want the video to be displayed at the top of the page with the approripate section of the test (form) below it. At the bottom of the page I want their to be a next button that will take the to page 2 which will have the same layout, video at the top and form below.

    What I was hoping to do what use the inline HTML option to embed the videos on the page, and then the page break function to continue the test to the next page. The problem is I can not ge the video to display. Each video is pretty long and self-hosted, so I am using .flv videos, and shortcode from a pluggin to display them, as I read that the inline HTML accepts shortcodes. However the shortcode is not being recognized and just displays as text. If I use the same shortcode in a post or page it works fine. I suppose I could try varios video formats with various pluggins and shortcodes, but I was hoping I could get a solution here.

    You can view and example of the shortcode working on page but not in the form here: http://www.premierseniorhomecare.com/tets

    So what do you suggest I do?

    Thank you!

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday April 4, 2012 | Permalink
  2. jleavitt
    Member

    I have now tried several pluggins that embed video via shortcode, and none of them seem to work. Does gravity forms really support shortcodes in the inline HTML or was I wrong?

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday April 4, 2012 | Permalink
  3. Are you running the latest version of GF and WP?

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday April 4, 2012 | Permalink
  4. jleavitt
    Member

    Hi Rob,

    WP is not 100% update because of a small conflict on another part of the website, but, Gravity Forms is, and I am running a parallel test on a different site of mine that has a 100% up to date WP and GF and getting the same results.

    And with some further testing, I have found that a good amount of shortcodes do work. But the ones I have tried for videos do not.

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday April 4, 2012 | Permalink
  5. jleavitt
    Member

    I was able to find a pluggin to make it work, just had to tweak it a little. FV Wordpress Flowplayer did the trick with a slight fix. Thanks

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday April 4, 2012 | Permalink
  6. Awesome, thanks for letting us know.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday April 5, 2012 | Permalink

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