Via do_shortcode() in template?

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(@mcyzyk)

Are there any working examples depicting how to use this via the do_shortcode() function in a template? This does not work:

echo do_shortcode( '[GDC_row]' );

// Start The Loop

if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) :

while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();

echo do_shortcode( '[GDC_column size="third"]' );

echo '<h2><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a></h2><p>';

get_template_part( '/template-parts/content-fulldisplay' );

echo do_shortcode( '[/GDC_column]' );

endwhile;

endif;

echo do_shortcode( '[/GDC_row]' );

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mcyzyk

(@mcyzyk)

3 months, 1 week ago

Ok, Claude clued me in. Looks like you need to build a big string of your content first, then feed it to the do_shortcode() function for interpretation/execution all at once:

// Build the entire shortcode string first

$output = '[GDC_row]';

// Start The Loop

if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) :

while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();

$output .= '[GDC_column size="third"]';

$output .= '<h2><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a></h2>';

// Capture the template part output

ob_start();

get_template_part( '/template-parts/content-fulldisplay' );

$output .= ob_get_clean();

$output .= '[/GDC_column]';

endwhile;

endif;

$output .= '[/GDC_row]';

// Process all shortcodes at once

echo do_shortcode( $output );

// Reset Post Data to restore the original query (important if you have a main loop elsewhere on the page)

wp_reset_postdata();

This works, sort of. It gives me a single row with 1 column that’s a third of the screen. I want a single row with 3 columns.

This reply was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by mcyzyk.

Thread Starter

mcyzyk

(@mcyzyk)

3 months, 1 week ago

Well OK! The issue was my Row tags needed to be outside my foreach loop:

$output = '[GDC_row]';

foreach ($selected_comparisonIDs as $thisComparisonID) {

// Define the specific post ID you want to display

$specific_post_id = $thisComparisonID; // Replace 26 with your actual post ID

// Arguments for WP_Query

$args = array(

'p' => $specific_post_id, // Query the specific post ID

'post_type' => 'any', // Set post type to 'any' to ensure it finds pages, custom post types, etc.

);

// Create a new WP_Query instance

$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

// Start The Loop

if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) :

while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();

$output .= '[GDC_column size="third"]';

$output .= '<h2><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a></h2>';

// Capture the template part output

ob_start();

get_template_part( '/template-parts/content-fulldisplay' );

$output .= ob_get_clean();

$output .= '[/GDC_column]';

endwhile;

endif;

// Reset Post Data to restore the original query (important if you have a main loop elsewhere on the page)

wp_reset_postdata();

}

$output .= '[/GDC_row]';

// Process all shortcodes at once

echo do_shortcode( $output );

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