Give this a try:
`<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[button type=”square” color=”black” size=”small”] Posted by ‘ . get_the_author() . ‘ [/button]’); ?>
vtxzzy, thanks for your response! I actually figured out an easier fix with a CSS workaround, but since you know what you’re doing I want to ask you another question:
Right now, I’m trying to be able to have a user submit a form with a YouTube URL that makes a draft post w/ the URL entered as a custom field. I can call the custom field in a special part of the theme, but I’m trying to then convert into an autoplaying video with Viper’s Video Quicktags.
TL;DR: Do you know a way to call a custom field within a shortcode? (This is outside of the loop in a place above the post in the theme)
-Matt
Not quite sure what you are asking. If you just want to get the custom fields for a post outside the loop, use get_post_custom with the post ID:
See the Codex on get_post_custom
is there only the 1 custom field you need to pull?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_custom_values
might be more appropriate.
global $post;
$ytid= get_post_custom_values('youtube_ID', $post->ID);
where youtube_ID is the name of your custom field. then you should be able to use the $ytid variable in your do_shortcode
Yeah, I have users fill out a form, where the video URL is entered as the custom field ‘videourl,’ on the article page, the video url is called with the function
<?php $checkvid = get_post_meta($post->ID, videourl, true); if($checkvid){ ?><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, vidauthor, true); ?>
<?php }else{ ?>
Hmm, we couldn't find the video.
<?php } ?>
This calls the URL out above the post to be displayed. When I first tried this, it worked and everything, but I wanted to get the video to auto-embed & autoplay with Viper’s Video Quicktags. So, around that function to call the URL I wanted to find some way to use [youtube] above function [/youtube] so that it would work.
So:
[youtube] <?php $checkvid function.... [/youtube]
<?php the_content(''); ?> \\ The description of the video would be in the post content, along with a link to the submitter's YouTube channel, etc.
So I’m now aware that the [youtube] would need a do_shortcode function, but I’m completely clueless as to how I can do this
Do you guys have any ideas?
Thank you guys for being so helpful thus far,
Matt
yeah if you know you have a youtube url then you can use the shortcode that you’re already looking at.
i think this ought to work.
echo do_shortcode('[youtube]'.$checkvid.'[/youtube]');
Soo close, haha. I tried your code and it calls it and everything, but for some reason it gives me an image. Would it help if I clarify that the $checkvid function is only there to make sure there is a videourl field? (so there isn’t any broken code). What I’m trying to call is the custom field ‘videourl’ inside the shortcode.
Thanks for your help!! I really appreciate it!
Matt
according to the plugin, it will show an image when the URL is busted. try echoing out the checkvid variable to ensure that it has a working URL
echo $checkvid;
Sorry, I have no idea where to put that, haha. Here’s what I’ve got in the video container: http://pastebin.com/NgGgdeDa
If there’s any way I can repay you for helping me so far, just tell me. I don’t have any money (I’m only 17) but if you need a site advertised or you want Twitter followers, just let me know and I can help out.
you can put it anywhere in your function after you’ve defined it. we’re just trying to see what the value is as hopefully that will tell us why the shortcode isn’t working.
<div id="video-container">
<?php $checkvid = get_post_meta($post->ID, videourl, true);
echo "what is the video url? " . $checkvid . "<br/>";
if($checkvid){ ?>
<?php echo do_shortcode('[youtube]'.$checkvid.'[/youtube]'); ?>
<?php }else{ ?>
Sorry, we couldn't find the video
<?php } ?>
</div> <!-- video-container -->
we probably also ought to wrap the shortcode up in a class_exists wrapper to ensure that viper’s plugin is installed
<?php if(class_exists('VipersVideoQuicktags')):?>
<div id="video-container">
<?php $checkvid = get_post_meta($post->ID, videourl, true); if($checkvid){ ?>
<?php echo do_shortcode('[youtube]'.$checkvid.'[/youtube]'); ?>
<?php }else{ ?>
Sorry, we couldn't find the video
<?php } ?>
</div> <!-- video-container -->
<?php endif; ?>
thanks for the offer. one day (cough cough) i will have my portfolio site up, but not yet. but the best thing you can do for me would just be to pay it forward and help someone else down the line. 🙂
