Add custom post type title and category to shortcode attribute

  • Resolved rikardo85

    (@rikardo85)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    I currently have a shortcode that can display a list of posts (custom post types)

    I have added a couple of attributes that if used display with no problems.

    How can I add the post’s title, id and category as attributes?

    Code I’m using within the shortcode function:

    extract( shortcode_atts( array(
		'posts' => -1,
		'order' => ''
	), $atts ) );

        $args = array(
         'posts_per_page' => $posts,
         'order' => $order,
         'post_type' => 'mws_faqs'
        );

    $query = new WP_Query( $args );
	while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post(); ?>
          <div>
		<h3><?php echo the_title(); ?></h3>
	  </div>
	  <?php endwhile;
          wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

    Any help much appreciated

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  • Lucas Karpiuk

    (@karpstrucking)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Just to be clear, you want the user to be able to specify the post title, id or category as a shortcode attribute and have it affect the output accordingly?

    Thread Starter rikardo85

    (@rikardo85)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    karpstrucking,

    Thanks for replying.

    That’s exactly what I’m looking to do.

    Lucas Karpiuk

    (@karpstrucking)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Okay. You’ll need to update the array in the shortcode_atts() to include the new attributes and their default values if not specified by the user:

    shortcode_atts( array(
  'posts' => -1,
  'order' => '',
  'title' => '',
  'id' => '',
  'category' => ''
), $atts ) );

    The Loop doesn’t allow for searching by title, so we’ll need to look up the post id when that is used:

    if ( $title ) {
  $post = get_page_by_title( $title, OBJECT, 'mws_faqs' );
  $id = $post->ID;
}

    Then update your $args array to include the $id:

    $args = array(
  'posts_per_page' => $posts,
  'order' => $order,
  'post_type' => 'mws_faqs',
  'p' => $id,
  'cat' => $category
);
    Thread Starter rikardo85

    (@rikardo85)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Thank you so much!

    Works a treat 🙂

    Thanks again

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