I don’t know of an official escape syntax for shortcodes and there likely isn’t one. When wordpress parses for shortcodes it looks for [ and ]. If you want to use square brackets within a shortcode, using the respective html ASCII entities escapes them. I.e. replacing [ by [ and ] by ]. WordPress will … Read more
It’s actually not too bad to do what you’re asking. This should take you about an hour to do your first one, and 10 minutes to do subsequent ones. Ultimately what you’re going to do is create a TinyMCE plugin. Here’s what you should arm yourself with to start: General guide to creating a tinymce … Read more
Open to anybody who can simplify this but here’s what I came up with that worked for me. First thing’s first – get the gallery, using get_post_gallery(), as soon as the loop starts: <?php if( have_posts() ) : ?> <?php while( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $gallery = get_post_gallery(); $content = strip_shortcode_gallery( get_the_content() ); ?> <div … Read more
QUESTION AND ANSWER REVISITED There are sometimes these questions that nags you and hunts you down later in life again, and this is one such question. This question had me thinking about an alternative solution to the problem. As I already stated, custom fields and meta boxes are there to store small pieces of meta … Read more
The answer by shea is not ideal as in many cases: You don’t want to strip everything from <br>, <p> etc. You want it as a default behavior for your WP visual composer which the above code will delete In many cases it is considered as “hacking the core” as this is changing the default … Read more
shortcode_atts() works like array_merge(): It merges the second list of arguments into the first one. The difference is: It merges only keys present in the first argument ($default). extract() then takes the array keys, sets these as variable names and their values as variable values. ‘w’ => ‘500’ in your example becomes $w = ‘500’. … Read more
To add our button to the TinyMCE editor we need to do several things: Add our button to the toolbar Register a TinyMCE plugin Create that TinyMCE plug-in which tells TinyMCE what to do when our button is clicked. Steps #1 and #2 In these steps we register our TinyMCE plug-in which will live inside … Read more
Based on my own experience, I’ve used a combination of method 1 & 2 – the architecture and footer scripts of 1, and the ‘look-ahead’ technique of 2. For the look-ahead though, I use regex in place of stripos; personal preference, faster, and can check for ‘malformed’ shortcode; preg_match( ‘#\[ *shortcode([^\]])*\]#i’, $content ); If you’re … Read more
I found an other way that works well for me: When initializing the plugin, do not enqueue your scripts and styles, but register them with wp_register_style and wp_register_script. Next you can load the script/style on demand. For example when you render a shortcode with wp_enqueue_style(“your_style”) and wp_enqueue_script(“your_script”). Here is an example plugin using this method … Read more
A function can be created that generates the output, then that function can be tied to a shortcode using the Shortcode API: /** * Returns –> Contact | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Careers * * @parm array $atts * @return string */ function wpse241695_arrow_contact_terms_of_service_privacy_policy_careers( $atts ) { return ‘–> Contact | Terms … Read more