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Regardless of it being WooCommerce or WordPress, I want to add a couple articles to specific pages, so they show there instead of the images that are there now. Homepage I know, I'm supposed to use shortcodes for that, but for some reason I can't get it to work. For example: This one has post ID 1305, so you'd imagine I use

[display-posts id="1305"]

to show it on that page, but it only displays the shortcode itself. I thought displaying posts by shortcode was one of WP's basic functions, wasn't it? Do I have to code a custom shortcode just for this to work?

Any advice?

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  • since it wouldn't work for some reason, I ended up using a plugin for it. – theHubi Dec 12 '14 at 9:39
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If you want to put PHP code in the editor you need a plugin, same goes for display-posts.

Display Posts shortcode isn't a built in function. https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/

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Try this

<?php echo do_shortcode('[display-posts id="1305"]'); ?>
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  • nothing. Now (since I removed the image to show only the article) it displays nothing. For your information, I added it in the backend - edit page. Afaik it should take PHP code as well. I suppose I could try adding it to the page-template. – theHubi Dec 12 '14 at 9:29

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