gregskuf

The basic visual composer grid builder has an option to call the category meta, but as this is not working I have tried the custom approach.
As written in the plugin know-how’s there is a way to call the custom meta and create a shortcode.
Here is the code I am using:

add_filter( 'vc_grid_item_shortcodes', 'my_module_add_grid_shortcodes' );
function my_module_add_grid_shortcodes( $shortcodes ) {
   $shortcodes['vc_say_hello'] = array(
     'name' => __( 'Say Hello', 'my-text-domain' ),
     'base' => 'vc_say_hello',
     'category' => __( 'Content', 'my-text-domain' ),
     'description' => __( 'Just outputs Hello World', 'my-text-domain' ),
     'post_type' => Vc_Grid_Item_Editor::postType(),
  );
   return $shortcodes;
}
 

add_shortcode( 'vc_say_hello', 'vc_say_hello_render' );
function vc_say_hello_render() {
	$terms = wp_get_post_terms( $post->ID, 'journal_categories' );
	$term = array_shift( $terms );
	return $term->slug;
	
}

Nevertheless this is just a way around which is still not working (I hope the code above is correctly written).

I think the main problem might be in priorities as I am reading on the other forums. The VC is getting included before taxonomies or something, but I am not technical enough to fix this.

Thanks, G