{"id":323,"date":"2014-03-08T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/?p=323"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:52:14","slug":"process-shortcodes-inside-easy-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/tips\/process-shortcodes-inside-easy-tables\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Tables and support for shortcodes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/urosevic-easytables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Easy Tables<\/a>\u00a0is a table manager for <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/urosevic-visualcomposer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPBakery Page Builder<\/a>\u00a0that allows you to\u00a0create and manage tables with drag and drop interface. The main difference between tables inserted through TinyMCE inside Text Block is that Easy Tables uses a standalone block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, only text can be inserted as content of cells, and shortcodes are not processed. So, we have a solution for that lack (until the author implements this functionality to the original plugin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Easy Tables hack<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s easy. Simply open the plugins file\u00a0\/wp-content\/plugins\/easy-tables-vc\/lib\/templates\/vc_table.html.php and change the last line in the file that says<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>echo $output;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>echo do_shortcode($output);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>And voila, all shortcodes inside Easy Tables cells will be processed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tweak Easy Tables VC to support links and images through shortcodes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fez1wZrUB5U?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy Tables for WPBakery Page Builder allows you to use only text content, but shortcodes are not processed. We have a working solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,8,9,5,6],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","tag-easy-tables","tag-howto","tag-php","tag-wpbakery","tag-wpbakery-page-builder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urosevic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}