WP Ajax runs both public as well as closed calls via admin.php. This means that you don’t have access to the whole wp environment, such as do_shortcode(), which is inside /wp-includes/shortcodes.php. This still can get worked around (and as well for oEmbed). See the following example that you could use in your AJAX callback to … Read more
First off, this is very borderline within the scope of WPSE, it at all. Apart from the shortcode to trigger the initial HTML output, this is really just AJAX. Anyhow, that being said, this is how it’s done: The PHP Assuming that the above PHP snippet you supplied is functional, place the following in a … Read more
2 questions so 2 answers 🙂 Why is the current functions.php not working and adding styles to all pages? I’m not sure if it’s the global call or the if statement… It doesn’t work because of the order in which these functions are called. Your shortcode callback is called during rendering post content (most probably … Read more
Using a global variable will work. Here’s a demonstration: function wpse_shortcode_function( $atts ){ // User provided values are stored in $atts. // Default values are passed to shortcode_atts() below. // Merged values are stored in the $a array. $a = shortcode_atts( [ ‘id’ => false, ], $atts ); // Set global variable $value using value … Read more
There are a couple of things to check here One: Is your plugin activated. Two: Is your shortcode in your main plugin file. If that code is in another file inside your plugin, did you make sure to include that extra file into your main plugin file Three: Don’t you have any type of error … Read more
Shortcode callbacks have to return, not output. So use the following: function test() { return ‘-TEST-‘; } add_shortcode( ‘testshortcode’, ‘test’ ); More info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API If you have to use echo you can also do it this way(useful if there’s a lot of markup & it’s difficult working with strings)- function test() { ob_start(); echo ‘-TEST-‘; … Read more
This is untested, but the callback function is provided with an array of arguments, $args which give (if any) the paramters provided with the shortocode. The zeroth entry sometimes contains the name of the shortcode used (e.g. public_email). By sometimes I mean… The zeroeth entry of the attributes array ($atts[0]) will contain the string that … Read more
You can add a custom plugin, to WordPress and also the TinyMCE visual editor. The follow source is a example that simple works and add a string before and after all shortcode. Usage The shortcode will find via regex, relevant if you need it for different shortcodes and different mark on this. The script add … Read more
We start by adding the custom TinyMCE Button: function add_mce_button_custom_em() { // check user permissions if ( !current_user_can( ‘edit_posts’ ) && !current_user_can( ‘edit_pages’ ) ) { return; } // check if WYSIWYG is enabled if ( ‘true’ == get_user_option( ‘rich_editing’ ) ) { add_filter( ‘mce_external_plugins’, ‘add_tinymce_plugin_custom_em’ ); add_filter( ‘mce_buttons’, ‘register_mce_button_custom_em’ ); } } add_action(‘admin_head’, ‘add_mce_button_custom_em’); … Read more
Shortcodes must return, not echo or print their output. As the Codex entry for add_shortcode() explains: Note that the function called by the shortcode should never produce output of any kind. Shortcode functions should return the text that is to be used to replace the shortcode. Producing the output directly will lead to unexpected results. … Read more