To add more details, the plugin is called Cleverwise Daily Quotes, Essentially you load the plugin with multiple quotes and it will display one per day. What I want is to have that [quote] content to hand off to your Tween plugin. Seems like it should be possible, however I lack the skill to make it happen. Thanks again!
Hey wehabilitate,
Are you trying to have the output of the cw_daily_quote shortcode be a bctt shortcode? That’s tricky, but it might be possible. I’d have to look at the code of the other plugin more closely
I just tried installing that plugin in my local development environment, and didn’t have any luck passing a shortcode as a daily quote.
So just give me a little more detail as to what you are trying to do, and maybe I can help. A link to your site where the Cleverwise plugin is currently working would be helpful, too!
Have a great day!
Ben
“Are you trying to have the output of the cw_daily_quote shortcode be a bctt shortcode? “
Yes that’s pretty much what I want to do. I want to output the cw_daily_quote to bctt.
My site is not live yet, so don’t have anything to show you unfortunately. I have the cw_daily_quote setup exactly how instructed by that plugin’s information/support page.
After further investigation, I don’t think it’s possible to have the sort of “shortcode inception” you are looking for. I’ll try to explain:
The shortcode API (what is being used by both my plugin and the quote plugin) only fires once per page load. That means that getting the quote shortcode to output [bctt tweet="nice quote here"] is possible, but once it’s output, the shortcode API is not going to evaluate that second shortcode, it’ll just display it on the front end, unparsed.
To get it to evaluate the second shortcode, you’d have to convince WordPress to fire the shortcode API twice on those pages, which would have unintended consequences, I bet. That falls outside of the scope of free support for my plugin, unfortunately.
Let me know if there’s any way I can help! Thanks so much for using my plugin!
Thanks for your help and work Ben!
