Conflict with "Allow PHP in Post and Pages"

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  • 01/23/2014 at 5:05 pm #278022
    Ayyoub
    Guest

    I’m trying to get the value of the “cn-cat” from the URL and use it to customize the category view according to the URL.
    I use the plugin “Allow PHP in Post and Pages” but I think it’s conflicting with connections shortcode.
    This is how I use:
    [connections page_limit=’10’ pagination_position=’both’ enable_search=’true’ category=

    [php]
    echo $_GET[“idcat”];
    [/php]

    enable_category_select=’true’ enable_category_by_root_parent=true enable_bio_head=’true’]

    is there a way to avoid this or to ingest this code directly on the Connections plugin?

    01/23/2014 at 8:53 pm #278078
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Ayyoub

    I’m pretty certain you can not use a shortcode within the shortcode attributes like that. WordPress wouldn’t parse and run it correctly, nothing I can do about that, sorry!

    You shouldn’t need to do that anyway as Connections will automatically check for the cn-cat query var and use it if it is set.

    01/24/2014 at 10:09 am #278083
    Ayyoub
    Guest

    The idea behind this is to be able to create a jump-menu for users to chose a top category then display Connections drop-down list with only the sub-categories related to prior choice.
    I might be overthinking it but I couldn’t find a better way to do it.
    I have too many categories/sub-categories that I can’t have them all displayed at once.

    Can I limit the drop-down to display only the root categories?

    02/05/2014 at 3:12 pm #279274
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Ayyoub

    Apologies for the late reply! For some reason your reply was detected as spam and I was not notified …

    The only option you have is to create a custom theme template page and call the internal Connections functions directly. Take a look in the class.template-parts.php file. There is a category method you can use that take many different options to customize the output. Far, far more than what is available thru the shortcode.

    Hope that helps.

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