Post Content Displaying Below ALL Shortcodes Content

Question

For some reason, my posts content (the content placed outside of the shortcodes I have set up) is only displaying below all the shortcodes, no matter where I place content in the post.

For example, I could set up a post like this:

[boxes cat="Features"]

test content here

[boxes cat="Reviews"]

And the test content will display below the Features AND the Reviews. Why would it do that? Some of my shortcodes use the php include. Here's an example of one of my shortcodes:

function free_ms_cms( $atts, $content = null ) {
   $free_ms = TEMPLATEPATH . '/get-free-ms.php';
   include($free_ms);
}
add_shortcode( 'free-ms', 'free_ms_cms' );

Anyone able to help? Thanks!

Answer 1

Are your shortcodes setup correctly? This usually means that your shortcode handling is echoing the shortcode content instead of returning it as a string.

For your case, while you are including a file in your shortcode, I doubt that you have the file setup to return the output instead of echo'ing it.

Try this instead:

function free_ms_cms( $atts, $content = null ) {
   $free_ms = TEMPLATEPATH . '/get-free-ms.php';
   ob_start(); //start an output buffer to capture any output
   include($free_ms);
   return ob_get_clean(); //return the current buffer and clear it
}
add_shortcode( 'free-ms', 'free_ms_cms' );