shortcode

A) If you want to show the shortcode syntax you can try to write it with double brackets in the editor: <pre>[[shortcode foo=”bar”]]</pre> It will then display as <pre>[shortcode foo=”bar”]</pre> on your frontend and it will not activate the shortcode callback. B) Or if you want some extra formatting, you could define your own pretty … Read more

This issue was introduced in WP 4.2.3 with the introduction of the do_shortcodes_in_html_tags() function, which does a HTML parse of content to protect against content containing shortcodes authored by untrustworthy contributors/authors who by specially crafting shortcode attributes can create XSS exploits. If that security situation doesn’t apply to you and you only want this to … Read more

Shortcodes are expected to return content, not echo it out. So if your shortcode_file.php file is straight html, it’s considered being echoed. If that’s the case, you could do something like : function shortcode_name(){ ob_start(); require_once ( plugin_dir_path(__FILE__) . ‘/shortcode_file.php’); $content = ob_get_clean(); return $content; };

You won’t be able to concatenate an include as it doesn’t return a string. What you could do is store that include content in a variable, and then concatenate. ob_start(); include ‘incMac.php’; $include_content = ob_get_clean(); echo do_shortcode( ‘[student]’ . $include_content . ‘[/student]’ ); ob_start tells php to store the output from the script in an … Read more

You’ll probably need to modify this a bit to ensure things get placed where you want them but here’s something I wrote that counts views on posts and displays the view counts for administrators: //ADD TRACKER FUNCTION TO ALL SINGLE VIEWS function custom_hook_tracker( $post_id ) { if( !is_single() ) return; if( empty( $post_id ) ) … Read more

Try this: function font_fam($atts, $content = null) { extract(shortcode_atts(array( ‘f’ => isset($atts[0]) ? $atts[0] : ” , ), $atts)); return ‘<span style=”font-family:’ . $f . ‘”>’ . $content . ‘</span>’; } add_shortcode (‘f’,’font_fam’);