shortcode

Using API to generate short link

You never need do_shortcode(), better said, almost never, there are a few cases where do_shortcode() could be appropiate. Note how you could do just: echo shorten_url( ‘http://mylink.com ‘ ); instead of: echo do_shortcode(‘[shorten]http://mylink.com[/shorten]’); Think about shortcodes as PHP functions placeholders; they are intended to be use where you can not execute PHP directly, like the … Read more

WP theme with Backbone

Well if you use Backbone with _s (https://github.com/tlovett1/_s_backbone) you will not be in problem. They used backbone for some effects and enqueuing is present still. /** * Enqueue scripts and styles. */ function _s_backbone_scripts() { wp_enqueue_style( ‘_s_backbone-style’, get_stylesheet_uri() ); wp_enqueue_script( ‘_s_backbone-navigation’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/js/navigation.js’, array(), ‘20120206’, true ); wp_enqueue_script( ‘_s_backbone-skip-link-focus-fix’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/js/skip-link-focus-fix.js’, array(), ‘20130115’, … Read more

Can I use a Shortcode output as an HTML attribute value?

I am not good at Regex but do_shortcode will basically will not parse any shortcode in the attributes, this might help you out: add_filter(‘the_content’, function($c){ $pattern = ‘/<span\s*(.*?)data-value=[“\’]?\[(.*?)\][“\’]?\s*(.*?)>\s*(.*?)\s*<\/span>/si’; $c = preg_replace_callback($pattern, function($c){ return isset( $c[2] ) ? str_replace( $c[2], do_shortcode(“[{$c[2]}]”), $c[0] ) : array_pop($c); }, $c); return $c; });

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