To use a shortcode in a template
<?php echo do_shortcode('[catlist id=1 numberposts=5)]'); ?>
Doesnt work im afriad!
I tried it with the following code:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSA657kxJQw[/embed]'); ?>
and it just echoed the content
remove the echo
<?php do_shortcode('[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSA657kxJQw[/embed]'); ?>
rendered nothing
Sorry, don’t know how to do that. Might look around in wp-includes/media.php to see how it handles embed shortcode stuff.
Thanks Michael
Had a look through media.php but i dont really understand it!
Should anyione be interested the solution is:
if (!empty($full)) {
$var = apply_filters('the_content', "[embed]" . $full . "[/embed]");
echo $var;
}
where $full is the value of the url to be embed (eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLh6F7G7rPA) from a custom field
@davidswain
I used your solution, however I was running into problems with other filters applied to ‘the_content’… so after much searching… I finally came upon a better solution to this (see below) and wanted to save others the aggravation… 🙂
global $wp_embed;
$post_embed = $wp_embed->run_shortcode('[embed]your-video-url[/embed]');
Mod Edit: Modified the code to global $wp_embed instead of creating a new instance of the WP_Embed class which is the incorrect way to do it.
@luckykind, brilliant, I was looking to see why do_shortcode with embed wasn’t working – it was driving me nuts. Your solution works great, though it’s so silly that we need to do this so manually.
