Shortcodes won’t work on live environment

So this turned out to be the problem: After running using WP_DEBUG on the live site it turned out $this was not defined in the following line: public function __construct(){ add_action(‘init’, function(){ add_shortcode(‘bbit’, array($this, ‘shortcode_handler’)); }); } shortcode_handler is a non-static function here, and this code was all called in a static context. It seems … Read more

Add shortcode support to custom field

@see https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode Searches content for shortcodes and filters shortcodes through their hooks: echo do_shortcode( get_post_meta( THE_ID_OF_YOUR_POST, THE_NAME_OF_YOUR_CUSTOM_FIELD, true ) );

Nesting shortcodes results in the inner shortcode being placed AFTER outer shortcode

Use Output buffering for the best result of shortcode, especially when you are outputting some HTML in it: function f_girl_shortcode( $atts , $content = null ) { ob_start(); ?> <div class=”talk girl”><?php echo do_shortcode($content); ?></div> <?php return ob_get_clean(); } add_shortcode( ‘talk-girl’, ‘f_girl_shortcode’ ); and function p_generic_shortcode( $atts , $content = null ) { ob_start(); ?> … Read more

Shortcode not working with WordPress updated

Try removing the brackets and adding the full url: $url=”http://theurl.com”; And for clarity, it’s best to use different names for the tag and function name: add_shortcode(‘aggrenda’, ‘aggrenda_func’); function aggrenda_func() { $url=”http://theurl.com”; $response = wp_remote_get( $url ); echo($response); }

Hook WP_Embed run_shortcode

Hooks are only available when you see apply_filters, apply_filters_ref_array, do_action, and do_action_ref_array. They are all basically handled the same way but have some small differences like filters always expecting a returned value. e.g.: // seeing this in some WordPress code $the_content = apply_filters( ‘the_content’, $the_content ); // means you can then use something like this … Read more

Order Woocommerce Products by Latest Reviewed

WooCommerce includes several options in the core plugin for sorting your products on the Shop page. However, most people don’t realize that there’s actually an option for WooCommerce custom product sorting. By default, you’re given 6 options: Default Sorting (custom + name) Popularity (sales) Average rating Most recent Sort by price (ascending) Sort by price … Read more

How to parse shortcodes within returned content

Here’s the code given by the VC team. And it works. // display content in grid add_filter( ‘vc_grid_item_shortcodes’, ‘my_module_add_grid_shortcodes’ ); function my_module_add_grid_shortcodes( $shortcodes ) { $shortcodes[‘vc_post_content’] = array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Post content’, ‘fluidtopics’ ), ‘base’ => ‘vc_post_content’, ‘category’ => __( ‘Content’, ‘fluidtopics’ ), ‘description’ => __( ‘Show current post content’, ‘fluidtopics’ ), ‘post_type’ => … Read more