WordPress: Calling a shortcode for a value in a different shortcode

Question

I\'m very new to this, so please go easy on me if this is a dumb question.

I am building a site with events manager and geo my WordPress plugins. I want a user to be abl

Answer 1

Of course you can pass a shortcode as an attribute of another shortcode. The only problem is, attributes doesn't pass [ or ]. So you have replace convert those bracket them with their html entry.

Replace [ with [ and ] with ] and you should be fine. Here is an example.

function foo_shortcode( $atts ) {

    $a = shortcode_atts( array(
        'foo' => "Something",
        'bar' => '',
    ), $atts );

    $barContent = html_entity_decode( $atts['bar'] );
    $barShortCodeOutput = do_shortcode($barContent);

    return sprintf("Foo = %s and bar = %s", $a['foo'], $barShortCodeOutput);
}
add_shortcode( 'foo', 'foo_shortcode' );


function bar_shortcode( $atts ) {
    return "Output from bar shortcode";
}
add_shortcode( 'bar', 'bar_shortcode' );

Then put this on your editor

[foo bar=[bar] ]

See we are passing a shortcode [bar] as an attribute of [foo]. So the output should be - Foo = Something and bar = Output from bar shortcode

I know it looks a bit nasty but it will do the trick.