Custom recent-posts shortcode’s thumbnail image not in line with rest of code
The problem is: the_post_thumbnail() outputs its content immediately. It’s basically like echoing instead of returning. To fix it, you should be able to just replace the_post_thumbnail(‘thumbnail’, [‘class’ => ‘droplet-img’, ‘title’ => get_the_title()]) with get_the_post_thumbnail(‘thumbnail’, [‘class’ => ‘droplet-img’, ‘title’ => get_the_title()])