can't get shortcodes in functions.php to work

[jlknauff]

I'm stuck...this outputs the shortcode text rather than the rendered result. What am I doing wrong?

function practice_area_people() {
    if ( is_page( 'antitrust-trade-regulation' ) ) {
		echo '<div class="practice-area-people">';
		genesis_custom_field('antitrust-trade-regulation-people');
		echo '</div>';
    }
}
add_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'practice_area_people' );

[Brad Dalton]

Got stuck on this sometime ago myself and fixed it using this solution.

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[Victor Font]

Is the value of the antitrust-trade-regulation-people custom field a shortcode? If so, wrap the custom field output in do_shortcode().

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[jlknauff]

Brad, nope...I've tried using do_shortcode as well with no luck. Even modified to use your example with no success.

function practice_area_people() {
    if ( is_page( 'antitrust-trade-regulation' ) ) {
		echo '<div class="practice-area-people">';
		$custom_field = genesis_custom_field('antitrust-trade-regulation-people');
		if ( $custom_field ) {
			echo do_shortcode( $custom_field );
		}
		echo '</div>';
    }
}
add_action( 'genesis_before_content', 'practice_area_people' );

[jlknauff]

Hey Victor, that's one of the things I've been trying, but no dice.

[jlknauff]

Here's the odd thing...

I'm using a shortcode that I know works for testing. (CF7)

This simply prints the shortcode on the screen:

$custom_field = genesis_custom_field('antitrust-trade-regulation-people');
echo do_shortcode( $custom_field );

However, this outputs the results:

$custom_field = genesis_custom_field('antitrust-trade-regulation-people');
echo do_shortcode( '[contact-form-7 id="1667" title="Contact form 1"]' );

Does that make any sense?

[Victor Font]

Try genesis_get_custom_field instead of genesis_custom_field. The first returns the value of the field. The second writes it to HTML. It could be the difference.

I also suggest using the Kint debugger so you can see the values returned in the function. https://wordpress.org/plugins/kint-php-debugger/

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[Brad Dalton]

Yes, genesis_get_custom_field is the correct function for genesis which is why your code isn't working.

I think its also better to use get_post_meta

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[jlknauff]

When I use

    if ( is_page( 'antitrust-trade-regulation' ) ) {
		echo '<div class="practice-area-people">';
		$custom_field = genesis_get_custom_field('antitrust-trade-regulation-people');
		echo do_shortcode( $custom_field );
		echo '</div>';
    }

it returns nothing. 🙁

I've also tried:

echo do_shortcode( get_post_meta( 223, $key = 'antitrust-trade-regulation-people', $single = true ) );

which also returns no results.

[Brad Dalton]

This works

add_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_custom_field_with_shortcode' );
function genesis_custom_field_with_shortcode() {
$custom_field = genesis_get_custom_field('antitrust-trade-regulation-people');
if ( $custom_field ) {
echo do_shortcode( $custom_field );
    }
}

Assumes you have created a custom field named antitrust-trade-regulation-people and added your shortcode to the value field for that key.

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