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1. ryanve
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I had initially wrote a shortcode that displayed author profiles based on id. For example [user-profile id="1"] would display the profile block for author 1. It worked. I was able to use it multiple times within a page.

   function user_profile( $atts, $content = null ) {
   extract(shortcode_atts(array('id' => ''), $atts));
   include ('user-profile.php');
   }

   ...but since the shortcode output was showing up before other entry content regardless of its place in the code (same issue here) I added the fix described here:

   function user_profile( $atts, $content = null ) {
   	extract(shortcode_atts(array('id' => ''), $atts));
   	function get_user_profile() {include ('user-profile.php');}
   	ob_start();
   	get_user_profile();
   	$output_string=ob_get_contents();
   	ob_end_clean();
   	return $output_string;
   	}

   ...which worked to solve the positioning problem but broke multiple instances of the shortcode. [user-profile id="1"] works but [user-profile id="1"] [user-profile id="2"] breaks it—the page just stops loading at that point.

   The html/php in user-profile.php is viewable here.

   How can I modify the shortcode function to allow multiple instances?

2. ryanve
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Problem solved!

   I updated the code in user-profile.php code so that it was all PHP and did not use any echos. Then I changed the shortcode function to:

   function user_profile( $atts, $content = null ) {
   	extract(shortcode_atts(array('id' => ''), $atts));
   	include ('user-profile.php');
   	return $user_hcard;
   	}

   I can now use the shortcodes wherever needed:
   

   [user-profile id="1"]
   [user-profile id="2"]
   ...

   Nothing but net!

3. ryanve
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Now the only thing I'm wondering is if there's a way to set the ID to be the $post->ID by default so that if [user-profile] was used without specifying an ID, then it would still work. Any ideas?

4. ryanve
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Solved that too—see this thread.

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