Shortcode looping/ html tags

  • Resolved jfantasybooks

    (@jfantasybooks)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hello!

    Details:

    Name: JFantasyBooks
    WordPress Version: 4.6.1

    Problem:

    I have an issue with activating a shortcode within the ‘<‘, ‘>’ tags in wordpress.

    Shortcodes themselves work, for example: <div [shortcode]> is fine.

    Problem comes when the shortcode I have has a looped output, and to activate it, I need something like:

    [shortcode-activate]

    [shortcode 0]

    [/shortcode-activate]. or else by itself, the shortcode results shows nothing.

    In a normal circumstance, it works, but when I do this:

    <tbody>
    [shortcode-activate]
    <tr value=[shortcode 0]>
    <td class=somevalue></td>
    <td>[shortcode 1]</td>
    <td>[shortcode 2]</td>
    </tr>
    [/shortcode-activate]
    </tbody>

    Only shortcodes 1 and 2 are activated. shortcode 0 just shows up blank.

    **Thing is, I used the views plugin before, and when I used their shortcodes, which looped using a class <wpv-loop></wpv-loop>, it worked. The only difference between me and them is I have a shortcode to loop it. So, I know it can work.

    And it’s not just this:

    If I put the shorcode within this: [shortcode-activate][shorcode 1][/shortcode-activate]

    only shortcode 1 initiates. Shortcode 0 comes up blank.

    Any thoughts?

    I would appreciate it a lot.

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  • jon

    (@adiant)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    “The shortcode parser correctly deals with nested shortcode macros, provided their handler functions support it by recursively calling do_shortcode()” – https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API#Nested_Shortcodes

    I suspect that the Shortcode author of one of the shortcodes that you are having trouble with is not doing this (“recursively calling do_shortcode()”).

    jon

    (@adiant)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Re-reading your question, I realize now that you may actually be writing your own shortcodes.

    If so, what I’m talking about is a shortcode that requires an [/shortcode] end tag and returns $content as a parameter. First thing to do with $content is $content = do_shortcodes( $content );

    Thread Starter jfantasybooks

    (@jfantasybooks)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hmmm. Thanks for the quick reply.

    Can you be a little more specific on how to initialize returning content as a parameter?

    so for:

    function some_function($atts)
    {
    $content = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), ‘some_code’, true);
    return $content;
    }

    add_shortcode(‘shortcode 0’, ‘some_function’);

    I would do something like this instead?:

    function some_function($atts)
    {
    $content = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), ‘some_code’, true);
    $content = do_shortcodes( $content );
    return $content;
    }

    add_shortcode(‘shortcode 0’, ‘some_function’);

    jon

    (@adiant)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    ref. – https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

    What you have displayed is not incorrect, just unnecessary. It is the function for [shortcode-activate] that needs to handle nested Shortcodes. It would become something like this:

    add_shortcode(‘your_initials_shortcode_activate’, ‘your_initials_shortcode_activate’);
function your_initials_shortcode_activate( $att, $content ) {
    $content = do_shortcodes( $content );
    • This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by jon.
    Thread Starter jfantasybooks

    (@jfantasybooks)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Thank You, I will try it.

    Thread Starter jfantasybooks

    (@jfantasybooks)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    So, I had this plugin designed for me, and only now I realized the nested shortcodes are not activated within the <,> tags. The designer won’t help as his ‘job’ is technically done, as it has the requested features.

    I see that I already have the do_shortcodes for content…

    Something like

    function your_initials_shortcode_activate($atts = array(), $content = null)

    .. a few if statements …

    $cf_content_build = ‘ ‘;
    $loop = new WP_Query($args);
    while ($loop->have_posts()):
    $loop->the_post();

    // echo do_shortcode($content);
    $cf_content_build .= do_shortcode($content);
    endwhile;

    wp_reset_query();
    wp_reset_postdata();

    return $cf_content_build;

    Since that’s the case, I am not sure if that’s the problem.

    What do you think?

    jon

    (@adiant)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Just saw this now.

    What you have done should work. I’m out of ideas. And not sure what else to say.

    Thread Starter jfantasybooks

    (@jfantasybooks)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    I actually figured it out eventually. Thank You for helping, @jonradio

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