Featured Widget Amplified help

[nickthegeek]

It is possible that you have some character entities. They may look like spaces or tabs to you but they don't to PHP. Delete anything that looks like a space or a tab then manually type it back in.

[Jeffrey]

Just tried that, but to no avail. 🙁 so frustrating. any other advice? thanks so much for your help!

[Jeffrey]

BTW, got the exact same error after moving that code after re-typing. I even just tried to retype it in TextEdit and then copy and paste into functions.php, but didn't work.

[nickthegeek]

Jeffrey,

It would help if you could get the code to post. Try putting it in a pastie and posting a link to that

http://pastie.org

[Jeffrey]

do you need the code from the entire functions.php file so you can see the line in reference, or just a section? if the latter, here's the pastie. http://pastie.org/5479516

[nickthegeek]

That isn't the code that you referenced earlier. Which line in that is throwing the error?

[Jeffrey]

Oooo, right you are Nick, apologies. here's is the pastie of the full functions.php file. The error is on line 146, citing an "unexpected '='". Thanks for your help! http://pastie.org/5481130

[nickthegeek]

for some reason you have this code in-between $post->ID
rel="nofollow"

[Jeffrey]

removing that where the code reads as follows results in the exact same error message (same line and referencing the = sign):

<code>function read_more() {
global $post;
$return_string = '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'">'.get_the_title().'</a>';
return $return_string;
}
add_shortcode( 'read-more', 'read_more_function');</code>

[Jeffrey]

god i can't get this forum to paste the code right. how do u do that? *edit: Nevermind, figured it out and edited the above post with proper code formatting.

[Jeffrey]

Ok, got the shortcode working only to, wait for it, not have the shortcode generate a "read more" link when I use it in the post meta section of the widget. Any ideas or help Nick -- or anyone else?

 

[nickthegeek]

What does your code look like now?

[Jeffrey]

Here's my full functions.php code. The shortcode section is at the very bottom - http://pastie.org/5485701. Nick, thanks SO much for your continued help.

[Jeffrey]

I notice the shortcodes you use in the widget configuration are formatted like this: [short_code]. I believe my short code is written to be like this [short code]. Does that make a difference?

[Jeffrey]

FYI, i'm putting the shortcodes in the post meta field of the widget like this: [post_comments] [read-more] (but i've also tried [read more] and [read_more]. None work.

[Jeffrey]

Any thoughts on this nick?

[Jeffrey]

Still trying to fix this nick. Do you (or anyone else) have any input?

[nickthegeek]

Sorry, does the shortcode work when not in the plugin field?

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