Title: Conditional template based on shortcode
Last modified: August 31, 2016

---

# Conditional template based on shortcode

 *  Resolved [andrewbecks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewbecks/)
 * (@andrewbecks)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-template-based-on-shortcode/)
 * Hello everyone! I’ve tried to piece together what I’m looking to do, but I’m 
   not finding the detail in the WP documentation or from any Google/Stack Overflow
   searches that is helping me achieve my end goal, so I’m turning here for some
   guidance.
 * Here’s the deal: I have the PHP below in my functions.php, which I use to load
   an alternate single.php when the querystring `mode=test` is present in the URL.
 * function alt_add_query_vars($vars) { return array(‘mode’) + $vars; }
    add_filter(‘
   query_vars’, ‘alt_add_query_vars’);
 * function alt_template($template) {
    global $wp; if ( ($wp->query_vars[‘mode’]
   ==’test’) ) { return dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/single-test.php’; } else { return
   $template; } } add_filter(‘single_template’, ‘alt_template’);
 * I’d like to adapt it so that it will ALSO load the alternate template if a `[
   test]` shortcode is present in the post (the shortcode is already registered 
   in functions.php and works fine). I attempted to add an OR condition to the if,
   looking for either the querystring OR the shortcode, but it is not proving successful:
 * `strstr( $post->post_content, '[test' )`
 * If anyone has done something similar or has thoughts on how to achieve this, 
   I’d be very interested in learning.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

 *  Thread Starter [andrewbecks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewbecks/)
 * (@andrewbecks)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-template-based-on-shortcode/#post-7052484)
 * As is pretty much always how it goes, I figure it out moments after I ask for
   help. Anyway, in case anyone is interested, here’s my solution:
 * Start with an additional function inside function.php
 *     ```
       function has_custom_shortcode($shortcode = '') {
           $post_to_check = get_post(get_the_ID());
           $found = false;
           if (!$shortcode) { return $found; }
           if ( stripos($post_to_check->post_content, '[' . $shortcode) !== false ) { $found = true; }
           return $found;
       }
       ```
   
 * (Adapted from something I saw [here](http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/quick-tip-improving-shortcodes-with-the-has_shortcode-function--wp-21007).)
 * Then, I was able to simply leverage the function in my OR condition:
 * `if (has_custom_shortcode('test') === true)`
 * That’s all it takes.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘Conditional template based on shortcode’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [single.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/single-php/)

 * 1 reply
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [andrewbecks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewbecks/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-template-based-on-shortcode/#post-7052484)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics