Karl Jacobs

That’s a partial fix, but still doesn’t allow for quick scanning of messages. (My company has 4,000 employees.. so don’t know if someone is internal or external, or from one of our prime customers).

Hmm.. that is pulling the posting date of the page it’s on, not of the post being referenced.

Here’s the entire code block so you can see what is going on overall.

function inline_category_list_function($atts)
{
	$returnHtml = "";
	$args = array(
		'category_name' => $atts['category'],
		'posts_per_page' => '5'
	);
	$posts_arr = get_posts($args);

	if(!empty($posts_arr))
	{
		$returnHtml = '<div class="'.$atts['style'].'">'.
					'<ul>';

		foreach ($posts_arr as $post) {
		 	$permalink = get_permalink( $post->ID );
			$returnHtml .= '<li><a href="'.$permalink.'">'.$post->post_title.'</a>';
			if($atts['displaydate'] == 'true')
			{
				$returnHtml .= '<span class="date">'.$post->post_date.'</span>';
			}
			if($atts['displayexcerpt'] == 'true')
			{
				$returnHtml .= '<p>'.$post->post_excerpt.'</p>';
			}
			$returnHtml .= '</li>';

		}
		$returnHtml .= '</ul></div>';
	}

	return $returnHtml;
}
add_shortcode('inlineCategoryList','inline_category_list_function');

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What this is doing is pulling the list of posts in a certain category, and displaying their post date and abstract if flagged in the shortcode.

I wanted this so I could display a list of posts inline in the contents of a page, without it having to be hardcoded at the top or bottom of page, and without requiring yet another custom page template.

Should also add that this is a multisite install. And tried it yet again, visual editor breaks it every way I do it.

It’s whatever internal code WP is doing behind the scenes.

Best way is to try it yourself. Create a new page/post, and paste in a YouTube link in the text/html editor, and publish it. That works.

Now edit that post/page and switch to the visual editor, edit some other text on the page, leaving the link alone, and the either save that change, or go back to the text editor and save the page. The link is now broken, and you only see the Youtube code on the page.

So that’s what the problem is, I can add a video, and have it work. But if one of the other editors/authors changes the page in the visual editor, the video is gone, replaced by the text for the link.

Christiaan,

The problem is that even with oEmbed, if another author edits the page in the visual editor, the YouTube link is getting converted to plain text. My authors/editors are very reliant on the visual editor.