Comments on: WordPress 2.5 Shortcodes

By: Get Slim

Get Slim — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:11:09 +0000

This will be useful to everybody

By: Buffalo

Buffalo — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:37:03 +0000

I had previously tried the apply_filters method and it didn’t work for me. After looking at your apply_filter code, I think I had the arguments reversed for the paramenters. Your code is working for me, so I guess I made an error the first time I used the apply_filter method. I will use this method, it is much cleaner and like you said, maybe better for future plugins.

Thanks

By: Xavisys - Web Development

Xavisys - Web Development — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:14:33 +0000

Buffalo: You can apply all your active shortcodes to text using the do_shortcode function like this:
$text = do_shortcode($text);
or using a filter like this:
$text = apply_filters('do_shortcode', $text);
Using the filter is probably better just in case any future plugins want to hook into the do_shortcode filter.

By: Buffalo

Buffalo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:40:36 +0000

The wordpress shortcodes will work only by default on posts and pages. You could add this statement add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’); to your wordpress themes functions.php file to make the shortcodes work in the Text Widget. You will need to replace “do_shortcode” with the name of your shortcode function.

To use your shortcodes outside of posts, pages, and the text widget, you could always call your shortcode function directly like this:

$text = yourShortCodeFunction('[your shortcode tag here]'); echo $text;

I’m not sure if the code will display here, always have problems posting code.

Very informative blog, lots of information.