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1. Tom
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hi,

   Firstly, thanks for this plugin it seems to be nice & lightweight and exactly what I was looking for.

   I'm using it on an eCommerce site I've been working on, but I now was to add a FAQ category to product pages within a category.

   Eg. If a product is in the "toys" category, it will display the "toys" FAQ's... if a product is in the "Kitchenware" category it will show the "kitchenware" FAQ's...

   As it stands at the moment I'd have to insert:
   [qa cat="toys"] ...to every product in the toys category, manually.

   Shortcodes are good for many things but for this particular site I have over 3,000 products to add, so anything to save me time would be a huge bonus.

   I'm thinking that if I can edit my product_listing.php (post template) with some php code/ if conditionals, I can achieve the needed - with your help of course :)

2. Dalton Rooney
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I think what you're looking for is the do_shortcode function. Something like this:

   <?php echo do_shortcode([qa cat="dogs"]);?>

   You can use conditionals in your template and you can also replace the contents of the shortcode with variables; between those two you should have everything you need to automate this for thousands of products!

   Cheers,
   Dalton

3. Tom
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Thanks Dalton, that seems to work, but I'm struggling to understand how I use the conditionals for various categories (I have 8 different categories).

   Can you please give me an example of how to show a different shortcode for say, 3 categories?

   thanks

4. Tom
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   OK here is what I have done... can anyone tell me if this is OK or if there is a better way of doing it?

   [Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

5. Dalton Rooney
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   If these are going on product pages and not on category index pages then I think you'll want to use the in_category() conditional for all of them.

   And the correct format if you've got multiple categories is

   in_category( array( 1,2,3 ) )

   Dalton

6. Tom
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Thanks Dalton but it seems that code isn't right in some way.. can you please re-post it inside code tags for me?

7. Tom
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Think I've got it...

   <!-- Lets show some FAQs based on the category a product is in --> 
   
   <?php if (in_category( array( 1,2,3 ) ) ) { ?>			<!-- primary category IDs go here -->
   <strong>Primary frequently asked questions</strong>
   <p><?php echo do_shortcode('[qa cat="faq-primary"]'); ?></p>
   
   <?php } elseif (in_category( array( 1,2,3 ) ) ) { ?>					<!-- secondary category IDs go here -->
   <strong>Secondary frequently asked questions</strong>
   <p><?php echo do_shortcode('[qa cat="faq-secondary"]'); ?></p>
   
   <?php } else { ?> 										<!-- display this (nothing) if not in any of above categories -->
   <p></p>
   <?php } ?>
   <!-- FAQ #end-->

8. digitalrenewal
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I would like to do the exact same thing, however my shortcode has no variables, I would just like to echo the content (what the user put between shortcode tags.

   Ive tried
   <?php echo do_shortcode('[sc]' . $content . '[/sc]'); ?>
   but it doesnt work

   anyone know how to do this?

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