WordPress doesn’t bundle any “templating engine” libraries like Mustache or Smarty, as far as I am aware, and frankly I have not been sold on the need for them. (Yes, I know its all the rage.) Concatenate your own strings, use PHP native functions like ob_start or sprintf, or load your own templating library. I … Read more
Shortcode not working in custom post types
I suspect Meta Slider Lite v2.2.1 is a plugin and that the instructions are telling you to either use a shortcode in the WordPress editor or the PHP code in a template file. They are not likely to be telling you to use both at the same time. I don’t know what a text module … Read more
All you need is some very simple IF logic. The $author variable is set to be empty here “author” => ” unless an author name is used in your shortcode. So now that you know the default value of $author you can use IF logic to check if it is empty or not. Two logic … Read more
You can display shortcodes in WP editor by removing do_shortcode filter from the_content filter as shown in the following code but beware that it will also display shortcodes tags when you use the_content() function in the theme anywhere else in that case before the_content() function add do_shortcode filter again like this add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘do_shortcode’,15 ); function … Read more
You can do it developing a TinyMCE plugin and load it using mce_external_plugins hook. The key is in the javascript file of the TinyMCE plugin which will be responsible to pass the nested shortcodes into the editor textarea. You can take a look to this article (about the middle they shows an example of how … Read more
Shortcode for sectors
Code auto escaping is not working when using short codes
Add remove_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘bwp_trim_excerpt’);, or whatever you’ve named your callback, just before the slideshow runs and add it back after. Without the actual code for both your callback and the slider I don’t think I can do better.
The other shortcode plugin probably includes this code: add_filter( ‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’ ); If you add this to your theme’s functions.php, the shortcodes might render?