Title: Integrate with Shortcode
Last modified: August 22, 2016
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# Integrate with Shortcode
* [Zain Sohail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zainsohail19/)
* (@zainsohail19)
* [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-with-shortcode/)
* Hello, I have a small question. I am using this plugin and although its working
fine but its not working for the custom shortcodes I created. Do I need to add
some kind of filter or something?
* **Shortcode: **
* ```
function custom_shortcode($atts) {
$atts = shortcode_atts( array( 'category' => '', 'item_per_page' => '' ), $atts, 'custom-shortcode' );
$the_slug = $atts['category'];
$idObj = get_category_by_slug( $the_slug );
$id = $idObj->term_id;
$totalItems = $atts['item_per_page'];
$args = array(
'category' => $id,
'post_type' => 'correspondencecourse',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => $totalItems,
'orderby' => 'post_date',
'order' => 'ASC',
);
$my_posts = get_posts( $args );
$posts = array();
foreach ($my_posts as $post) {
$post_id = $post->ID;
$post_title = get_the_title( $post_id );
$content_post = get_post( $post_id );
$contentHolder = $content_post->post_content;
$content = wpautop( $contentHolder, true );
$permalink = get_permalink( $post_id );
$post_pdf_url = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'course_pdf_url', true );
if ( has_post_thumbnail( $post_id ) ) {
$image_id = get_post_thumbnail_id( $post_id );
$image_url = wp_get_attachment_image_src($image_id,'medium');
$image_url = $image_url[0];
$post_thumbnail = '
';
}
$buf .= '';
$buf .= '
';
$buf .= apply_filters( 'the_content', '