Post Info Problem

[pixelloop]

I am trying to use the below filter on an archive template to replace the post info in my loop. This doesn't have any effect without the priority number 20 at the end, but when it does work it literally prints to shortcode as displayed as opposed to getting that data from the database for output. What am I doing wrong here? Can I not use these shortcodes in this location? Is it to do with being in or out of the loop? What is the best approach as I can't find anything on the forums.

Note: I only want this format to appear on my custom post type archive.

add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'sp_post_info_filterx', 20 );

function sp_post_info_filterx($post_info) {
	$post_info = 'by [post_author_posts_link]';
	return $post_info;
}

I cannot include the url because the client has it behind a firewall at the moment.

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[David Chu]

Hi,
Many people don't know that shortcodes are not automatically available everywhere, especially in templates, although they are in page content and a few other spots. do_shortcode() is a function that should get that working for you. I added that to your code:

function sp_post_info_filterx($post_info) {
	$post_info = 'by ' . do_shortcode('[post_author_posts_link]');
	return $post_info;
}

Cheers, Dave

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