Title: Creating a shortcode in WordPress
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Creating a shortcode in WordPress

 *  [davidortiz34](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidortiz34/)
 * (@davidortiz34)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-shortcode-in-wordpress/)
 * Hello I’m trying to turn a function into a shortcode. I’ve read how to create
   a shortcode however, when I turn my function into a shortcode I get a different
   output.
 * Basically whenever you click on an area of focus all teachers associated with
   that area will show .
 *  The code below works perfectly.
 *  `<?php $schools = $post->ID; // the current post id ?>
 *  <?php
    $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘teacher’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array(‘
   key’ => ‘areas_of_focus’, ‘value’ => $schools, ‘compare’ => ‘LIKE’, ), ), );
 *  $schools_data_query = new WP_Query($args);
 *  ?>
 *  <?php
 *  if ( $schools_data_query->have_posts() ) {
    echo ‘<ul>’; while ( $schools_data_query-
   >have_posts() ) { $schools_data_query->the_post(); //echo ‘<li>’ . get_the_title().‘
   </li>’; //echo ‘<li>’ . get_permalink() . ‘</li>’; ?> <li><a href=”<?php the_permalink();?
   >” title=”<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
 *  <?php
    } echo ‘</ul>’; } else { // no posts found }`
 * Now I want to turn it into a shortcode. Here is what I have so far
 *  ` function gm_list_teacher_shortcode($atts){
    $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘
   teacher’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘areas_of_focus’, ‘value’ =>
   $schools, ‘compare’ => ‘LIKE’, ), ), );
 *  $schools_data_query = new WP_Query($args);
 *  global $post;
    $schools = $post->ID;
 *  $content = ”;
    $content .= ‘<ul>’;
 *  while($schools_data_query->have_posts()) : $schools_data_query->the_post();
 *  $content .= ‘<li><a href=”‘.get_permalink().'”>’.get_the_title().'</a></li>’;
 *  endwhile;
 *  $content .= ‘</ul>’;
 *  wp_reset_query();
 *  return $content;
    }
 *  add_shortcode(‘gm_list_teacher’, ‘gm_list_teacher_shortcode’);`
 * However when I use this shortcode no matter what area of focus I click on the
   same teachers show. I believe when creating the shortcode I’m no addressing the
   following line correctly
 * > $schools = $post->ID;
 * Any help would be really appreciated. I’m in no way a great programmer. Thank
   you

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