Yes, never trust user’s input. Just because you told people to provide a valid number for a specific shortcode parameter, it doesn’t guarantee that the input will always be a valid number, so always secure user’s input — and output. You should also, if you haven’t already done so, read these articles: Data Validation Securing … Read more
Step 1: Create a new template file in your themes folder named: shorturl.php <?php /* Template Name: Short URLS Template Post Type: post, page */ while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $content=get_the_content(); header(‘Location: ‘.str_replace(“&”,”&”,$content)); exit(); endwhile; Step 2: Create a new php file in your wp-content/plugins/ folder and name it: public-url-shortener.php <?php /* Plugin Name: … Read more
There’s already a function for checking if a post has a shortcode: has_shortcode(): function enqueue_script_if_shortcode_is_detected() { global $post; wp_register_script( ‘leweb-widgets’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/includes/leweb-widgets.php’, ‘1.0’, true ); if ( has_shortcode( $post->post_content, ‘leweb_suggested_events’ ) ) { wp_enqueue_script(‘leweb-widgets’); } } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘enqueue_script_if_shortcode_is_detected’ ); Just keep in mind that checking the post this way: Will not know if … Read more
First thing you need to do is drag & drop a Text widget to your WordPress sidebar on the Appearance » Widgets screen in your dashboard. After adding the widget, you can simply add your shortcode inside the text edit area of the widget.
You don’t need to store that information, WordPress already does this, and it does this across multiple sessions. If you log in on your phone, and on your PC, then go to your user in WP Admin, you’ll see them listed with a button to log you out on the other devices. Additionally, WordPress stores … Read more
The quotes in the shortcode call were not standard (despite them looking so). Replacing the old double quote characters with typed-into-notepad, copied, and pasted new quotes in the theme editor resolved the problems. Thanks to @WebElaine and @vancoder for the help!
You can add a parameter to your shortcode function and use this value to check if the user is allowed to view the content: function func_check_user_role( $atts, $content = null ) { $user = wp_get_current_user(); $user_role = $atts[‘role’]; $allowed_roles = []; array_push($allowed_roles , $user_role); if ( is_user_logged_in() && array_intersect($allowed_roles, $user->roles ) ) { return $content; … Read more
You have several options, but I would advise against what you’re doing, what you really need is to make a new shortcode that calls the plugins functions to achieve what you want ( or to use a plugin that provides a filter ): 1. Search Replace on the Post Content Hook into the_content filter, and … Read more
So yes, as you say you can’t pass an array to has_shortcode, which is confirmed in the docs, so you need to do the ‘OR’ operation manually, which would look something like this: $shortCodesToTest = [ ‘wpdocs-shortcode-1’, ‘wpdocs-shortcode-2’, ‘wpdocs-shortcode-3’]; $anyShortCode = false; foreach ($shortCodesToTest as $sc) { if (has_shortcode( $post->post_content, $sc) ) { $anyShortCode = … Read more
This should work: function cpa_haven_banner() { $shortcode = do_shortcode(“[get_sheet_value location=’LOAN!B7′]”); return ‘ <ul class=”list-group list-group-horizontal entry-meta”> <li class=”list-group-item list-group-action-item”> <strong>Female</strong> ‘ . $shortcode . ‘</li> </ul> ‘; } add_shortcode(‘cpa-haven’, ‘cpa_haven_banner’);