shortcode

See the Shortcode API article on the Codex for a tutorial and my Shortcode Plugin for some examples. A very basic example for the functions.php: /** * Shortcode for bloginfo() * * Usage: [bloginfo key=”template_url”] * * @see http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_bloginfo * @source http://blue-anvil.com/archives/8-fun-useful-shortcode-functions-for-wordpress * @param array $atts * @return string */ function bloginfo_shortcode($atts) { extract( shortcode_atts( … Read more

Referering to the Shortcodes API you can do echo do_shortcode(‘[helloworld]’); if your shortcode not in post. Or you can do echo apply_filters(‘the_content’, ‘[helloworld]’); but this will also bring other filters to work on your shorcode return html.

Good to hear that you managed to solve the problem already. Here’s a few examples on how you could also return html from a shortcode. As you already found out, you can use ob_start() and ob_get_clean() to buffer the html. Inside it you can echo the markup or drop out of PHP and write plain … Read more

Yes, the problem is that it won’t work. The shortcode system doesn’t know how many arguments will be passed, so it gives you an array $atts that contains the attributes. When it is only one, then the array will only have one element. When no argument is passed, the array will be empty. Check the … Read more