Sidebar shortcode

  • Resolved melbo

    (@melbo)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    I am trying to create a shortcode for the wordpress default sidebar so it can be added everywhere in the page.

    So i created the sidebar:

    // Sidebar Shortcode

  function shortcode_sidebar( $atts, $content = null ) {
    extract(shortcode_atts(array(
      'type' => 'vertical'
    ), $atts));

    if ($type == 'horizontal') { include(TEMPLATEPATH."/footer_sidebar.php"); }
    else { get_sidebar(); } 

  }

    And when I add it in the editor, the sidebar appears as it was projected to appear just that if I place it in a <div> container

    <div class="sidebar-container">[sidebar]</div>

    The sidebar is taken out of the div container and is listed above.

    Do you have any explanation for that?

    Thanks

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    anything in a shortcode needs to be returned instead of printed/echoed – however, the call of get_sidebar() calls dynamic_sidebar() which directly outputs the widgets.

    you could try to work with output buffering; http://php.net/manual/en/book.outcontrol.php

    Thread Starter melbo

    (@melbo)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    With alchymyth’s help I managed to rewrite the code as follows:

    // Sidebar Shortcode

  function shortcode_sidebar( $atts, $content = null ) {
    extract(shortcode_atts(array(
      'type' => 'vertical'
    ), $atts));

    if ($type == 'horizontal') {
	    ob_start();
	    include(TEMPLATEPATH."/footer_sidebar.php");
	    $string_to_return = ob_get_contents();
	    ob_end_clean();
	    return $string_to_return;
    }
    else {
    	ob_start();
	    get_sidebar();
	    $string_to_return = ob_get_contents();
	    ob_end_clean();
	    return $string_to_return;
    	 } 

  }

  add_shortcode('sidebar', 'shortcode_sidebar');

    And it works.

    Thanks a lot!

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