As you noticed, the plugin use an instance of the class TablePress_Frontend_Controller to render the shortcode. This instance is created by only on frontend requests, this is the reason why shortcode doesn’t work on backend. The function tablepress_print_table function use the TablePress_Frontend_Controller::shortcode_table method to render the table, and this is the reason why also that … Read more
Your ampersand is getting encoded, try: get_page_by_title( html_entity_decode( $title ) );
The filter responsible for adding these characters is wptexturize, you can remove it using remove_filter. remove_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wptexturize’ ); remove_filter( ‘the_excerpt’, ‘wptexturize’ );
I have worked it out and here are the steps to what I did to get it working created a custom table in the wordpress database (called it wp-products) this table had the following fields: id, make, model, price Created a shortcode to retrieve the price. Shortcode looks like this [product_price id=2] where id=2 is … Read more
Just use do_shortcode: echo ‘<div class=”wrap”>’. do_shortcode( $two ) .'</div>’;
You should do this in the shortcode/plugin itself. An easy way to do it may be something like this: // if the shortcodes empty: if ( empty( $shortcode_content ) ) { // set a default nothing found message $shortcode_content=”Sorry! Nothing found”; } return $shortcode_content;
Not quite like that, but you can achieve the same result if you use a pre-defined value or argument in your shortcode to act as a “flag”: [authoorsposts author=”post”] …then in your handler: function wpse_209684_author( $atts ) { if ( ! empty( $atts[‘author’] ) ) { $author = $atts[‘author’]; if ( $author === ‘post’ ) … Read more
You don’t have any validation mechanism. Your logic should be somewhat along those lines Submit form Check submitted fields ($_POST) against expected values If all looks good send If something is not as expected, log error ( you can use WP_Error() ) and rebuild form showing error message (and maybe repopulating fields with previous “good” … Read more
I checked your code in my install. It works, except that you made a typo (missing backslash): [icon]cog[/icon] Few notes: You must make sure to enqueue the Font Awsesome stylesheet. You must close the shortcode, like: [icon]cog[/icon] Remember to escape the class name with esc_attr(). Another shortcode idea: [fa icon=”cog”]
This is more about php than wp, but ob_get_contents returns the buffer without clearing it. So you get your buffer content twice. Use ob_get_clean to erase the buffer on returning it.