custom data in text field

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  • 06/24/2016 at 7:51 am #380491
    Diego van der Heijden
    Participant

    Hi! I’m using cMap theme and I’m trying to use a shortcode from another plugin to display star ratings in the results. How do I use shortcodes in a text field?

    Thanks

    06/24/2016 at 7:59 am #380492
    Diego van der Heijden
    Participant

    To add on this: Shortcodes do work in the Bio and Notes fields, not in the text fields.

    06/24/2016 at 9:20 am #380500
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Diego van der Heijden

    Right, shortcodes do work in the bio and notes fields but not the text custom fields. I suspect you’re following text custom field tutorial? If you are then change this line of code:

    if ( ! empty( $text ) ) echo '<p>' . esc_html( $text ) . '</p>';

    to this:

    if ( ! empty( $text ) ) echo '<p>' . do_shortcode( esc_html( $text ) ). '</p>';

    That should do the trick.

    Hope that helps. Let me know.

    ps. I’d be interested in seeing the result. Which reviews plugin are you using?

    06/28/2016 at 6:23 pm #380843
    Diego van der Heijden
    Participant

    Thank you for your quick reply!

    It’s not really working at the moment. I get this piece of code instead of the custom field for every entry:

    $text = $entry->getMeta( array( ‘key’ => ‘reviewfields_id’, // This should match exactly the field id used when registering the custom field. ‘single’ => TRUE // Do not change this. ) ); if ( ! empty( $text ) ) echo ‘
    ‘ . do_shortcode( esc_html( $text ) ). ‘

    ‘;

    Kind regards

    06/29/2016 at 9:59 am #380877
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Diego van der Heijden

    If you are seeing actual code in the template when you view the directory, then you need to move the code so that it is between <?php and ?> tags. If it not between those tags, then it is being displayed as text and not run as code.

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