Title: About the shortcodes_adverts_list() function
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# About the shortcodes_adverts_list() function

 *  Resolved [Iurie Malai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flegmatiq/)
 * (@flegmatiq)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-the-shortcodes_adverts_list-function/)
 * Greg, the ‘Search’ and ‘Location’ fields on adverts lists are displayed only 
   by the list.php template? … that is included by adverts/includes/shortcodes.php
   shortcodes_adverts_list()? I supose the answer is ‘yes’.
 * I needed to customize the list.php template, so I created an own plugin that 
   overrides the original shortcodes_adverts_list():
 *     ```
       add_action( 'wp_loaded', 'override_adverts_list_shortcode' );
   
       function override_adverts_list_shortcode() {
          remove_shortcode( 'adverts_list' );
          add_shortcode( 'adverts_list', 'custom_shortcode_adverts_list' );
       }
       ```
   
 * then I copied the original code to the new function and just changed this:
 *     ```
       // adverts/templates/list.php
       ob_start();
       include_once ADVERTS_PATH . 'templates/list.php';
       return ob_get_clean();
       ```
   
 * to this:
 *     ```
       // adverts/templates/list.php
       ob_start();
       include_once( plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . '/templates/list.php');
       return ob_get_clean();
       ```
   
 * so the WP Adverts now loads my customized list.php template.
 * What was customized at this moment I described partially [here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/locations-dropdown-menu-in-adverts-list)
   and this is related to my question. The problem is that this customization works
   only on the main adverts list page, but not on adverts lists for separate categories–
   see [this](http://android.info.md/wpadverts/) (main adverts list) and see [this](http://android.info.md/wpadverts/util/categorie/servicii)(
   a category adverts list)). It seems that when a category adverts list page is
   loaded is used the original shortcodes_adverts_list() and, respectively, the 
   original list.php template, not that I customized. What I am doing wrong here?
   Can you suggest the right direction of solving this?
 * Regards,
    Iurie
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 *  Plugin Author [Greg Winiarski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwin/)
 * (@gwin)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-the-shortcodes_adverts_list-function/#post-6787780)
 * 1. In wpadverts/includes/functions.php see function adverts_the_content() it 
   is used when browsing by category and when viewing single ad details.
    2. You
   will need to unregister it and replace with your own function
 *     ```
       add_action("init", "my_the_content_filters", 200);
       function my_the_content_filters() {
           remove_filter('the_content', 'adverts_the_content');
           add_filter('the_content', 'my_adverts_the_content');
       }
       ```
   
 * this should remove adverts_the_content() filter and register my_adverts_the_content()
   function, which you need to write.
 *  Thread Starter [Iurie Malai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flegmatiq/)
 * (@flegmatiq)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-the-shortcodes_adverts_list-function/#post-6787800)
 * Thank you, Greg! This is resolved. But I discovered a new and interesting issue:
   I added excerpts to items with get_the_excerpt() and this works well on main 
   adverts list, but doesn’t when browsing by category. More precisely, when browsing
   by category nothing is displayed, excepting menus (see [this](http://android.info.md/wpadverts/util/categorie/servicii)).
   I don’t know if this is related to WP Adverts, but maybe you have an idea what
   happens.
 * This is how looks the mine customized list-item.php:
 *     ```
       <div class="advert-item">
   
           <?php $image = custom_adverts_get_main_image( get_the_ID() ) ?>
           <?php if($image): ?>
               <img src="<?php esc_attr_e($image) ?>" alt="" class="advert-item-grow alignleft" />
           <?php else: ?>
               <img src="" alt="" class="placeholder alignleft" />
           <?php endif; ?>
   
           <h2 title="<?php esc_attr_e( get_the_title() ) ?>" class="advert-link"><?php the_title() ?></h2>
           <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( get_the_title() ) ?>" class="advert-link-wrap"></a>
           <span class="advert-excerpt">txt<?php echo(get_the_excerpt()); ?></span>
   
           <span class="advert-date"><?php echo date_i18n( get_option( 'date_format' ), get_post_time( 'U', false, get_the_ID() ) ) ?></span>
           <?php $price = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), "adverts_price", true ) ?>
           <?php if( $price ): ?>
               <span class="advert-price"><?php esc_html_e( adverts_price( get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), "adverts_price", true ) ) ) ?></span>
           <?php endif; ?>
   
       </div>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Iurie Malai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flegmatiq/)
 * (@flegmatiq)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-the-shortcodes_adverts_list-function/#post-6787813)
 * The same story with the_excerpt().
 *  Thread Starter [Iurie Malai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flegmatiq/)
 * (@flegmatiq)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-the-shortcodes_adverts_list-function/#post-6787818)
 * Probably I am wrong, but: can the adverts_the_content() function influence the
   excerpt when browsing by category? I do not understand fully how it works in 
   the category related part.
 *  Thread Starter [Iurie Malai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flegmatiq/)
 * (@flegmatiq)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-the-shortcodes_adverts_list-function/#post-6787834)
 * Greg, today I disabled all my plugins, excepting WP Adverts, and all my custom
   functions and I added to the original list-item.php template the next piece of
   code:
 *     ```
       <span class="advert-excerpt">
           <?php echo get_the_excerpt(); ?>
       </span>
       ```
   
 * After this on the main adverts list page excerpts are displayed, but when I open
   a category page with adverts list excerpts are not displayed. How to repair this?

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