OffWorld

I got it to show up on the front-end in a custom form in a custom template with:

do_action('show_user_profile',$current_user);
do_action('edit_user_profile',$current_user);

Which loops in all the theme and plugin additions to the admin User Profile (but just the form elements, not any admin scripts or stylesheets that go with them). Looking at those two other threads you linked to I now see where I was probably going wrong in my form validation function.

Ultimately for the site project in my original post I ended up using the “One User Avatar” plugin which has built-in methods for adding the form to the front-end.

Ok, finally figured out something that does exactly what I want it to do. Not sure this is the “best” way, but I’ll use it since it works. Inside my loop:

$pattern = get_shortcode_regex();
		preg_match_all( '/'. $pattern .'/s', $post->post_content, $matches );

		if( is_array( $matches ) && array_key_exists( 2, $matches ) && in_array( 'myshortcode', $matches[2] ) )
		{
			foreach ($matches[0] as $value) {
				$value = wpautop( $value, true );
				echo do_shortcode($value);
			}
		} else {
			// Do Nothing
		}

So I regex the post content looking for my shortcode, if it doesn’t find any instances it does nothing, if it does for each instance I grab the value of it, run it through the wpautop filter (to clean it up), then reconstruct the shortcode on the fly with do_shortcode().

That was the first thing I tried, figuring it’s purpose is to JUST “do the shortcode” but I’ve tried code based on the examples on that page and they just seem to filter out all the post content, including the stuff inside the shortcode.

The only real-world examples I’ve found so far are about using shortcodes in widgets and sidebars. This is being used in a custom post_type where I have the shortcode working, I just want to get rid of anything in the_content() that isn’t the shortcode.