Do Shortcode in Mini Post List Pluggable

[kennethfeldman]

Hi Jason,

I’ve successfully copied the Mini Posts List function to my Functions.php, and have slightly modified the output to include the post_excerpt per your recent notes.

However, I am now wanting to add a shortcode to my Mini Post List output.

I can get any shortcode itself (still in the brackets, un-rendered) to print out to the page, but how do I get it to execute? Is there a way?

Thanks!

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[Jason Bobich]

What is your current code that’s straight printing it out?

[kennethfeldman]

…
$output .= '<div class="mini-post-list-content">';
$output .= sprintf( '<h4>%s</h4>', themeblvd_get_the_title( $post->ID, true ) );
$output .= '<div class="faculty-details">[ct id="_ct_textarea_55895c91d60ff" property="title | description | value"]</div>';

[kennethfeldman]

Per my previous support request I had:

$output .= '<div class="faculty-details">' . $excerpt = get_the_excerpt( $deprecated ) . '</div>';

…which worked fine, however I want to replace the_excerpt with a shortcode from a custom post type plugin.

Note that ANY shortcode results in getting printed straight out.

[Jason Bobich]

First off, this:

$output .= '<div class="faculty-details">' . $excerpt = get_the_excerpt( $deprecated ) . '</div>';

Should be this:

$output .= '<div class="faculty-details">' . get_the_excerpt() . '</div>';

And with your new code, this:

$output .= '<div class="faculty-details">[ct id="_ct_textarea_55895c91d60ff" property="title | description | value"]</div>';

Would simply become this:

$output .= '<div class="faculty-details">' . do_shortcode('[ct id="_ct_textarea_55895c91d60ff" property="title | description | value"]') . '</div>';

[Jason Bobich]

In WordPress if you want to execute shortcodes, you pass the string of text into do_shortcode(). This function then returns the string back to you, but with shortcodes executed.

$str = '[foo this="that"]';

// Print out above string, no shortcode executed
echo $str;

// Print out above string, with shortcode executed
echo do_shortcode($str);

// Save above string to a variable, with shortcode executed
$new_str = do_shortcode($str);

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode

When you’re looking at these codex pages, don’t just copy from the top of the article where it says “Usage” — Look below at the actual examples, and try to gain an understanding of the basic principles of using functions in PHP.

For example, above where you did this:

$output .= '<div class="faculty-details">' . $excerpt = get_the_excerpt( $deprecated ) . '</div>';

… This tells me you’re just copying from the top of the codex page without really understanding what you’re copying. So try to look at whatever more in-depth examples are provided so you can start to learn these basic things. You’ll start to see the patterns and get a basic understanding for PHP.

[kennethfeldman]

Awesome, thanks Jason.

This did the trick. I thought I had tried this, but must have had a typo.

$output .= '<div class="faculty-details">' . do_shortcode('[ct id="_ct_textarea_55895c91d60ff" property="title | description | value"]') . '</div>';

Further, I have several extra fields in a particular post type, and so I added some IF’s around them and now my mini posts lists kick out different extra field data depending on which page they appear. Very cool.

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