ryanve

Nice one! Changing meta_key to meta_query did it. Thank you =)

$args = array(
'numberposts'=>5,              // show 5 posts
'post_type'=>'post',           // posts only
'meta_query'=>'_thumbnail_id', // with thumbnail
'exclude'=>$post->ID           // exclude current post
);

Problem solved by changing all instances of $ to jQuery

<script>
          jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery('#basicFeatures').jshowoff({
                links: false,
                controls: false,
                effect: 'fade',
                cssClass: 'basicFeatures',
                hoverPause: false
            }); });
        </script>

This works—killer! Thanks =)

function user_profile( $atts, $content = null ) {
	global $post;
	extract(shortcode_atts(array('id' => ''), $atts));
	include ('user-profile.php');
	return $user_hcard;
	}

Of course 🙂
I already tried

extract(shortcode_atts(array('id' => $post->ID), $atts));

but no dice.

Problem solved!

I updated the code in user-profile.php code so that it was all PHP and did not use any echos. Then I changed the shortcode function to:

function user_profile( $atts, $content = null ) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array('id' => ''), $atts));
	include ('user-profile.php');
	return $user_hcard;
	}

I can now use the shortcodes wherever needed:

[user-profile id="1"]
[user-profile id="2"]
...

Nothing but net!